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by crystaln 4567 days ago
Certainly the FBI could have used some simple OCR to import the key...
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Some of the text was so small the FBI said it was illegible (in their view). Even a single digit wrong would render the entire key useless (B != 8)
Why do that when you can just throw it at some poor junior employee to transcribe?