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Also known as: obfuscated release
A binary post whose subject lines, filenames, and sometimes archive password reveal nothing about its contents. Header-based searching cannot find it, so retrieval depends entirely on an NZB listing the Message-IDs. After download the archive unpacks to files with random names, and the client or a post-processing step has to rename them from other metadata carried alongside the release.
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