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IP is not a text format (like HTTP). It's a binary format where each field of the IPv4 header has an exactly defined offset and length. The source IP address is placed at offset 96…

One is about ideas the other is about values.

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They don't need correlation. Operating large numbers of nodes gives them a high enough probability that all three hops may be under their control thus they can observe the entire r…

I was astonished about the rapid expansion of the list of cyber warfare forces in recent years and by the incredible mass of cyber warfare capabilities of the United States. https:…

Only 500 years or better through the dark age of the Galactic Empire? The Seldon Plan: 1. Start a foundation. 2. Locate it at the outer rimes of the civilised galaxy. 3. Implement …

The Tzar-bomb was not an fission-based A-bomb, it was a fusion-based H-bomb. This type of nuke has typically much less fallout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba https://en.…

This dark pattern is called the ratchet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16689663

For the sake of completeness: "Prisoners released early by software bug (2015)" https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35167191

Cash also enables ransome.

Anybody wondering why earth is closer to yovager than pluto? CGP Grey has a good explanation https://youtu.be/SumDHcnCRuU

I'm in no favour for the RIAA but just imagine. It would be a 300IQ move if that specific pull request was engineered by RIAA themself. Please pull that test case... Fooled! Now th…

This law can't even be enforced because the criminal can easily generate a new addresse for every new victim.

You are the only commenter quoting the horizontal development. So maybe my idea relates to you. Are you familar with the concept of the Big O notation [1], which computer scientist…

It's feels like this document is heavy as ten years of work, thanks.

Haskell is actually very easy. This is just my heuristic but Haskell has just 25 keywords. For comparison: C 32, Java 53, C++ 83 and C# 102. What makes Haskell confusing are the 11…

The programming course at my university taught us the fundamental paradigmens. The languages were chosen only as examples. Imperativ / OOP => Java Functional => Haskell Logic => Pr…

I remember last year around christmas/new year 2018/2019 a similar hack/leak/doxxing took place, targeting 994 (!!) mostly german politicians, celebrities and influencers. Massive …

I got interessted in science not through books but through experiments. Every sunday morning after breakfast our parents made us do simple experiments. After my interest was roused…

Where did the author commit to a certain standard? Maybe the author knows all of this but isn't -Wpedantic. Please don't jump to conclusions and assume worst.

The Inversion Methode: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician famous for his maxim "Invert, always invert". He believed that the solution of many hard problems can be …

Even more interesting is the comparison. VSCode took the lead in the late summer of 2017. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

But in managed languages the safety comes by default and in unmanaged languages the safety comes by exception.

Please have a look. I shut my windows and turned off the light for this exercise. Just added a tick more warmth. https://imgur.com/a/t1aQaDv #ffffff // info white #d9d9d9 // text w…