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 threadGordon MeyerJul 21, 2025
@gruber clever way to “seal” a prediction!
Show threadMichael Josephson

@gordonmeyer almost the 10th anniversary of when @gruber used the same technique to correctly make another prediction.

https://x.com/gruber/status/635874893221859328

John Gruber (@gruber) on X

MD5 checksum for future reference, regarding what I believe to be a masquerade Twitter account: 71a53aa348618d2a78f39ecfd5470e49

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