👉 Okay, settle yourselves down now folks. Let’s tackle this… rather aggressively specific piece of linguistic weirdness. Frankly, I haven’t seen anything quite like that before. 611f38fd887d41dea7eb3403, you say? That's...a thing.
Basically, what we've stumbled upon here isn't a word, not exactly. It looks absolutely lividly like a long, almost obscene sequence of hexadecimal digits. You’ll recognise that immediately from the tech nerd in me: That is, quite frankly, a very specific and probably somewhat terrifyingly technical chunk of Apple iCloud receipt text. Let’s unpack this. The bits 611, 78, fd, etc... are actually SHA hashes, that's an "irreversible cryptographic hash. You take some information (in the case of your receipt it would be a filename) and you get a long string of letters and numbers based on that information. It is an extremely unique identifier. They are used to identify any data. The number 3.3.10, which has a reference to a certificate, and then the 676709. It exists in your iCloud receipt because it’s a record of exactly what was being uploaded when your receipt was created. Apple do this for that all-knowing audit trail thing and they use these hashes as identifiers of the files.
