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by ycmbntrthrwaway 3423 days ago
They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.
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> They stick to plain ASCII and the same font everywhere to reduce metadata leakage.

Could you please elaborate?

Knowing what fonts / styles any one author uses could be used to group together internal intelligence structures.
Fingerprints like this: https://amiunique.org/fp