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by erbbysam 4319 days ago
A short story on that as a Defcon 22 badge competitor - When we reached the stage where we got the "Lorem ipsum" page. We first noticed that a bunch of the lines did not directly follow the "Lorem ipsum" format exactly and had strange capitalization. So we thought that the difference between the expected "Lorem ipsum" text and this text was the clue... We eventually figured out if you pasted the entire block into Google translate something strange would pop out (that was relevant to another hint - https://www.defcon.org/1057/SarangHae/ and then was useful again with what that email address returned ).

Looks like Google updated their latin translator to completely break the puzzle :)

page in question: https://www.defcon.org/1057/FissilingualElucidation/