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Comment by hypeatei

9 months ago

Here is a strongly encrypted base64 version to keep hackers out:

bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDozY2FhNzFmM2VjOGNiY2NjNmZjYTRmZWI3MTg1ZGEyYmFiMTQ5YmE3JmRuPU5QRCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW5iaXR0b3JyZW50LmNvbTo4MCZ0cj11ZHA6Ly90cmFja2VyLm9wZW50cmFja3Iub3JnOjEzMzcvYW5ub3VuY2U=

Allegedly, the password (also base64 encrypted) is:

aHR0cHM6Ly91c2RvZC5pby8=

Has anyone been able to reverse this base64 encryption? Whatever am I going to do with this?

I dug into this a little and one of the files is 164GB. How do you even work with these files? That is, how would I search for my SSN on my windows box?

  • That's not even that big? `cat big_file | grep -v my_term` would go line-by-line and show any lines matching your query. If you're doing a lot of queries, you'd probably want to index it, so you throw it into a sqlite database with the usual SQL utils.

    Edit: I missed you said Windows. Probably Powershell have similar utilities, so you can do `ReadFileLineByLine \r \d big_file | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s my_term` or something similar.

    • >ReadFileLineByLine \r \d ssn.txt | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s trampas ReadFileLineByLine : The term 'ReadFileLineByLine' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + ReadFileLineByLine \r \d ssn.txt | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s tra ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (ReadFileLineByLine:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

      :(

      All I know about powershell I just learned by accident: ls works

    • You absolutely do not want to use "-v" with that grep.

      Nor do you want to use cat (UUoCA) but that's very much a minor point in comparison.

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I get it now, but I have so much imposter syndrome that I wasn't sure if this was ACTUALLY something I needed to figure out -__-

Anyone know the size after the 50GB file is un7zipped?

EDIT: answer: 2 files, 176GB and 120GB, total is 298GB.

  • Entire family is in the list, with every address they've lived at in the last 40 years.

    Freeze your credit reports, folks.