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Curious about this detail: “Machines displayed codes that looked like hieroglyphs, Mr. Brandt said, indicating servers had been encrypted with malware.”
by tedd4u 4y ago
Curious about this detail:
“Machines displayed codes that looked like hieroglyphs, Mr. Brandt said, indicating servers had been encrypted with malware.”
- KMag 4y agoPlot twist: they weren't hacked. They were just programmed in APL and crashed with a source code printout of the offending line.
- Jensson 4y agoIt is easy to do if it supports utf-8 codepoints. You can write them like this: 𓀀𓀁𓀂𓀃𓀄𓀅𓀆𓀇𓀈𓀉𓀊𓀋𓀌𓀍𓀎𓀏
- froh 4y agoUnicode hieroglyphs o-O Nice rabbit hole... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:List_of_hieroglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:List_of_hieroglyphs
- layer8 4y agoHieroglyphs would point to Egyptian hackers, but that may be a false flag.
- mr_toad 4y ago“Looked like” hieroglyphs could mean anything. Windings font, the text from Futurama, random UTF8 symbols.