Someone left a note on the windshield of my filthy ass, busted ass 2004 Honda civic saying they wanted to buy that shit off me. The "all cars are spyware tanks" thing must really not be going well huh
A few years ago I used an ad profile fuzzing extension that clicked on every link in every page, and for some reason that put me in the advertising latent space where the only ads I saw were for like precious metal, executive lifestyle, minimalist spinning tops. I just requested google delete my data again and the only thing left in my shopping history is having viewed this downspout like 5 years ago. So I think I am going to write a quick script to seek out gutter stuff bc its visually calming
My fuckin Honda civic is 20 years old soon and going absolutely nowhere for another 20 more and like fuck fossil fuels but you gotta respect a machine without an ounce of planned obsolescence in its body
Government threatening to garnish my wages for not paying my parking tickets and I really need to find an employer willing to pay me in cash under the table
Also present in the metadata are NISO tags for document status indicating the "final published version" (VoR), and limits on what domains it should be present on. Elsevier scans for PDFs with this metadata, so good idea to strip it any time you're sharing a copy.
for any security researchers out there, here are a few more "hashes" that a few have noted do not appear to be random and might be decodable. exiftool apparently squashed the whitespace so there is a bit more structure to them than in the OP: https://gist.github.com/sneakers-the-rat/6d158eb4c8836880cf03191cb5419c8f
of course there's smarter watermarking, the metadata is notable because you could scan billions of pdfs fast. this comment on HN got me thinking about this PDF /OpenAction I couldn't make sense of earlier, on open, access metadata, so something with sizes and layout...
you go to school to study "the brain" and then the next thing you know you're learning how to debug surveillance in PDF rendering to understand how publishers have so contorted the practice of science for profit. how can there be "normal science" when this is normal?
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