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Okay. How to regenerate whatever output from that JPEG the Tweet author claims to get? outguess emits random garbage for me over that URL.

(It's also not clear how to use this program from its own documentation, and the program has some QC issues…)

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The short answer: you can't reproduce it. Because it never happened in the first place. Not to mention that Outguess doesn't provide the "data type" of the output - you just get the bits. The entire thing is a badly-executed hoax.

I agree; I just thought simply asking first might help prove out that there's nothing here. Normally, I'd hard pass on "content" like this, but apparently enough people upvoted this to make it to the front page of HN.

BTW this looks like the tool that could have created the output format from the twitter screenshot: https://github.com/DominicBreuker/stego-toolkit/blob/master/.... That repo has a Dockerfile so you can build the Docker image to see if you can recreate their results.

>How to regenerate whatever output from that JPEG the Tweet author claims to get?

No idea, that's why I posted here so someone that does know how to do this can either verify it as a hoax or a legit find.

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