npub1fpe7wvhfdaf0q5hakpq3ynvmwxk9wmmnvljc45x63yck7yjmhxdsez75rh (npub1fpe…75rh) Yes. But the really ridiculous part is that he didn’t leave it with individual files. Quite frankly, I’m not sure myself how one could credibly fake an entire disk image. Sure, one could use a computer with a clock really set in the past. One could install an outdated OS version and actually use that one. One could carefully choose software which actually existed back in the day. One might also be able to find hardware which actually existed in 2007, so there wouldn’t be traces of “impossible” hardware components in the Windows configuration or any of the less obvious places.
Yet running a computer disconnected from the outside world is unrealistic. There would be NTP errors in the logs because of the wrong computer clock. It’s impossible to produce a credible browsing history, with websites being not at all what they used to be in 2007. And even Windows updates would likely produce logs that are inconsistent with year 2007 because the whole Microsoft infrastructure changed massively.
Yellow Flag /
npub190…f5wdd
2024-02-22 16:59:32
in reply to nevent1q…8ny5
Author Public Key
npub190z95jsfjmjuzvdrq2t27ucldpvvsvh46tcxl9elexhy9mp2qeps6f5wddPublished at
2024-02-22 16:59:32Event JSON
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"content": "nostr:npub1fpe7wvhfdaf0q5hakpq3ynvmwxk9wmmnvljc45x63yck7yjmhxdsez75rh Yes. But the really ridiculous part is that he didn’t leave it with individual files. Quite frankly, I’m not sure myself how one could credibly fake an entire disk image. Sure, one could use a computer with a clock really set in the past. One could install an outdated OS version and actually use that one. One could carefully choose software which actually existed back in the day. One might also be able to find hardware which actually existed in 2007, so there wouldn’t be traces of “impossible” hardware components in the Windows configuration or any of the less obvious places.\n\nYet running a computer disconnected from the outside world is unrealistic. There would be NTP errors in the logs because of the wrong computer clock. It’s impossible to produce a credible browsing history, with websites being not at all what they used to be in 2007. And even Windows updates would likely produce logs that are inconsistent with year 2007 because the whole Microsoft infrastructure changed massively.",
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