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They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.



> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

Could you please elaborate?


Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.


Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp




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