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Jon
macOS 11.7.10, iMac Retina 5K 27-inch, late 2014, 3.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 1 TB fusion drive, 16 GB RAM, Epson SureColor P600, Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, MS Office 365
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Re: hidden bitcoin file
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I've got it, as I guess was expected.
No thoughts on this, but I once found a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, and years ago, V1 reported having found a disk image full of government badges and insignia.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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Re: hidden bitcoin file
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It turns out that file has been there since at least 2018 and there have been multiple secret tricks to open it through the years (it apparently posed as an image file at one point). In macOS 16.4 beta 1 it is in Virtual Scanner (there is no Virtual Scanner II). Some have argued it is an "easter egg" put in by an Apple developer, but given Apple's penchant for using open source code and the fact that there are several Virtual Scanner apps on SourceForge and GitHub I suspect the file got into macOS via some open source software used by Apple to support some OS function.
Personally I don't see any reason to delete it, and it is conceptually possible the file is used as an encryption key in some way. (I use a high resolution JPG as an encryption key for my keypass database.)
"All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance
honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to
fill your head with information"
--Walt Disney
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