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cokernel_hacker
I particularly liked the "Windows" vs "Sindogs" issue. My immediate hunch was that the characters differed by a single bit so I ran a bit of python:

  >>> [ord(x) ^ ord(y) for (x, y) in zip("windows", "sindogs")]
  [4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 16, 0]
Sure enough...