John GruberJul 20, 2025

Some people do crosswords. I fill in redacted names.

The redacted email screenshot in Apple's lawsuit against Michael Ramacciotti and Jon Prosser was set in Arial (of fucking course). So I pixel-fitted the font size and used red text to superimpose the redacted names, along with surrounding words, to show which names fit the redactions exactly:

Show threadJohn GruberJul 20, 2025

And I have a spitball theory who wrote the anonymous tipster email to Apple. Here’s an MD5 hash of my spitball, for future reference, in case someone else names them first:

72ecce571403600a27e986d40c0155b2

Show threadPatrick ToomeyJul 20, 2025
@gruber is this guess nonced or should we await the brute force guessing of a semi-limited input space to reveal the answer?
Show threadJohn Gruber
@ptoomey3 It's a full sentence, so it's highly unlikely someone is going to brute force it.
Jul 21, 2025 at 12:01amIvory for Mac
Show threadPatrick ToomeyJul 21, 2025
@gruber 😀