The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins/
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
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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!