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One of the Discworld novels uses 'hacking' of multi-shutter semaphore towers as a plot point, by way of a gibberish sequence that can physically destroy the poo
by crooked-v 8y ago
One of the Discworld novels uses 'hacking' of multi-shutter semaphore towers as a plot point, by way of a gibberish sequence that can physically destroy the poorly engineered towers by slamming the shutters around at a resonant frequency (book) or cause the controls to physically seize up in a jammed position (film).
- smallnamespace 8y agoReal physical layers are quite vulnerable to this type of disruption and we actually mitigate this by paying rather high costs at the bit encoding level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler
- sophacles 8y agoGNU Terry Pratchett http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/