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>> The tools were passed around stegonographically in the instruction images

Whoa, really? I remember the coupons flying around 4chan of course. Had no idea the tools were in the images.

It's easy to make a file that both a valid image and a valid zip file, because zip readers start from the end-of-central-directory at EOF and most other things start from a header at the start of the file. Many such images included a winrar icon.

There might have also been some steganographic images, but I know for sure I saw several of the image+archive kind around then.

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