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Originally Posted by murraypaul
That is pure sophistry.
Yes a text file is stored in binary, all files are.
But it is human readable, so when you said:
"Or it could just be a hash code, meaningless to anyone who can't decode it,
and very hard to spot in the binary code of the file"
It wouldn't be hard to spot, it would stick out like a sore thumb.
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I don't want to hijack this thread addressing an important issue, with a
technically detailed explanation of how wrong you are and just how easy
it can be to insert a binary hash code that would not appear in a file being
read as any text or graphic code (ANSI,ASCII,EBCDIC, or whatever)
Luck;
Ken