A colleague was able to spot that a long string of gibberish was base64 encoded json. I couldn't believe he was base64 decoding on the fly without tools, so I asked him how he did it. It turns out that everyone can spot base64 encoded json.
  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s not very surprising, base64 is just a conversion of the byte stream that makes up a file, so it’s clear that similar-starting byte streams will also start similarly when encoded as base64. But still good to know.