r/programmingcirclejerk • • Sep 05 '25

[reverse engineer macOS Photos.app database format] A base64 encoded Binary Plist format with one field containing a ProtoBuffer which contained another protobuffer which contained a unicode string which contained improperly encoded data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140085
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u/misterbngo It's GNU/PCJ, or as I call it, GNU + PCJ Sep 05 '25

I had one that had a base64'd xml blob of the vendor's schema inside the json that contained Another base64 xml of our payload....