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> …lawyers picked apart Wright’s claims that some of his computer documents had been typed before 2008, using evidence from font designers. The witnesses testified that some fonts “hadn’t even been created until years after the alleged date of the document”…

https://craigwright.net/

Fascinating.

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Fun fact: A Microsoft font also helped expose corruption by Pakistan's former PM, Nawaz Sharif [1]. Apparently, documents dated to 2006 were typed up using Calibri, a font that only went into public distribution around 2007.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961354/pakistan-calibri...

Same thing in Turkey. https://balyozdavasivegercekler.com/2012/10/04/dani-rodrik-d...

I guess it's prudent to remember to always use Times New Roman when committing fraud.

Note that although the Roman Empire started around 27 BC, Times New Roman is only good for fraud going back to 1932 AD.

No match to Wright's documents from the neolithic era, discussed during the trial.

Papyrus?

Still doesn't work, NSA has a backdoor agreement with "Big Font" to put little tags in fonts to pinpoint the time, data, and individual authoring the pdf or similar. Similar to how they watermark laser printers, the waterfont the fonts

What's stopping anyone from using a front from a Windows 95 install? How would what you say apply?

Also fonts helped discredit Dan Rather’s Killian memo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authentici...

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