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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)

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This ended up leading me down a series of wild rabbit holes where I found:

Encrypted files which I was able to crack to discover their secrets

A gift a dad in Thailand had made for his two and a half year old son, but didn’t want published online

Somebody’s email password

A secret biography of Chet Baker

A file called worm.exe which held quite the surprise

A host of extremely random images and files

56 previously unknown Winamp skins hidden inside other Winamp skins!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Very cool. Love the old photos that were found

And that Nike one looks fairly official. Curious to know the backstory on it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

This was fun :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Interesting blog

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I would've enjoyed reading the touching letter that a father from Thailand wrote... Nice post!