FileHint editorial team
Who runs FileHint — the editorial structure and legal operator.
How the editorial team is organised
The FileHint editorial team is made up of contributors fluent in file formats, operating systems, browser internals, and security. We do not publish individual names, but every article is reviewed against the following roles:
- Writer: drafts the article, gathers primary sources, verifies magic bytes.
- Technical review: reproduces OS/browser behaviour, CLI steps, and code.
- Editorial review: consistent terminology, locale-independent translation, heading structure, internal links.
- Final approval: source coverage, safety language, alignment with our corrections policy.
The concrete verification steps are documented in the editorial policy.
Supervisor & operator
Editorial supervision and operations are handled by Netwiz LLC(Japanese legal name: ネットウィズ合同会社).
- Company: Netwiz LLC (Japanese legal name: ネットウィズ合同会社)
- Contact: contact page (
info@netwiz.co.jp) - Business: online media operations and software development
- Editorial independence: content decisions are made independently of advertising relationships (details)
Areas of expertise
- File-format history and specification reading (ISO BMFF, PE, ELF, Mach-O, SQLite, TNEF, etc.)
- Behaviour differences across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and major Linux distributions
- Differences in MIME handling and downloads across Chromium, Firefox, Safari, and Edge
- Building in-browser, client-side utilities
Policies
- If we cannot verify a claim with a real sample, we do not publish it.
- We do not push readers to "open it" or "run it" — we hand them the decision.
- When errors are reported, we record and correct them (corrections policy).