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If you don't see the difference between proprietatory format like docx and you argue that just because I add double-asterisk with a word in-between then suddenly it's not plain-text file (since it's markdown markup at this point) then yeah, this conversation is over.

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I think it does.

By transforming file Foo.docx into file Bar.b64 you get a plain-text file (Bar.b64) but Foo.docx still isn't plain-text. That's actually how email attachments work (transforming any file into b64 plain-text file), so I think your counter-argument is pointless.

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4 anni fadiscuss

No.

Open up a word document (.docx) in hex editor (head -80 foo.docx | xxd) and you'll see it's not a plain file on a binary level. Now do the same with any python, php, html, and js files and you'll see that they're plain files.

That's the difference that Derek is talking about.

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5 anni fadiscuss

Here's one: If you want your operations to be as easy as they can be (LAMP), go with PHP.

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5 anni fadiscuss

By original do you mean Hovav's? Then no, it's 2008.

But I'd argue that Borrowed Code Chunks exploitation technique paper by stealth from 2005 is the original. But maybe I'm just too old.

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