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I love the introductory chapter in the Bendix G15 Programmers's Reference Manual - when computers were still fresh enough that you had to start from the very basic concepts. in c/programming@fedia.io

[–] jgrg@mstdn.science 1 points 1 month ago

@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange I'm glad we don't use that notation. "u" and "v" are too similar.

I love the introductory chapter in the Bendix G15 Programmers's Reference Manual - when computers were still fresh enough that you had to start from the very basic concepts. in c/programming@fedia.io

[–] jgrg@mstdn.science 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange Looking up sexadecimal suggests it is 16 digits too, but 0-9 v-z is 15 digits.

Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled in c/privacy@fedia.io

[–] jgrg@mstdn.science 1 points 2 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I find it really worrying that this breaks the assumption that there is no security risk showing sensitive information onscreen to a fully authorized user.
(Plus the computational inefficiency of taking screenshots and turning them back into text.)