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- Jun 17, 2018
Hey Alex, binary (and by extension floating point/integer) is a remarkably ubiquitous system that powers all things digital, I'm sure you already know that. But that comes at a cost of implementation. Refuting on your statement of how a .jpg being the same as a RSA key, sure they're essentially same at a base level, the CPU don't give a damn about the contents, it's just binary that need to be executed.
But that statement falls off rather quickly, we're all human (or I hope so, not "autistic robots" like Melanie said). We care about the content, our totally humane eyes can see the complied image of that .jpg. This falls into your first statement too: :powerlevel: I do CPU Architect work, I know a few people that do Comptia computer repair, y'know base level stuff. One of those people received a client's laptop, he ran a scan on there and it picked up a few CP .jpgs with random filenames, he opened Explorer and his humane eyes saw the contents in the thumbnail view.
Continuing on he was scarred and devastated, he left the laptop on (as it may have a encrypted drive that encrypts on poweroff), and forwarded that to people that does information security and forensics. The end user of that laptop came back to get his laptop and the police got him at the door and brought him in for questioning.
That goes back to your first point again, the end user there could be innocent as malware could've planted CP on his laptop. But it's not your job to debate that, that's why we got people that major in forensics and metadata, that's their job, not yours. They also have therapists on call as they can become scarred too (because they're normal humans and not deviants like you Alex). And ending on the second point that statement is as analogous as comparing a BB-gun to a Tsar Bomba, they're both weapons but that latter is an order of magnitudes far-capable of widespread damage.
This counter of yours reeks of incompetence.