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Comment by stdplaceholder

7 years ago

For example the high bit in blocks of ASCII text will always be zero. In a binary dump it would appear as a column of zeros.

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nyc111  7 years ago

Ok. So you don't need to actually "read" and understand the binary code like you are reading a programming language. You look for out of place numbers.

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