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		Retr0id on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was ful... It's perfectly normal for binary artifacts to contain null bytes, even long runs of them.

bloopernova on July 19, 2024 [–]

Yeah, I'd need to figure it out properly, but for unicode text files it should be OK. Good point about the binaries though, thank you!

hawski on July 19, 2024 | [–]

You say Unicode, but you mean UTF-8. Now for 16 bit Unicode the story is different :)

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