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Day: 10 September 2018

  • What Cyber-War Will Look Like

    When prompted to think about the way hackers will shape the future of great power war, we are wont to imagine grand catastrophes: F-35s grounded by onboard computer failures, Aegis BMD systems failing to launch seconds before Chinese missiles arrive, looks of shock at Space Command as American surveillance satellites start careening towards the Earth--stuff โ€ฆ

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  • Image representing post: Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz

    Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz


    A century ago, one of the worldโ€™s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph



    AltNevil Maskelyne โ€“ doing it for the lulz?
    LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institutionโ€™s celebrated lecture theatre in โ€ฆ

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  • Big Rain



    Invisible Bread

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