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9y ago
tl;dr- Programming code serialized to binary seems like a Base-2 number to them, so they were looking for "illegal" C scripts that would be prime when read as a Base-2 number. They give the example of a C script that breaks an ol
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Alternative hypothesis, for the sake of example - Someone's just really be into practical jokes. Possibly the neighbor whose alarm keeps going off, or possibly a third-party who found an easy way to trigger the alarm. But, my first th
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They do provide a hello-world example, though it's a bit hidden ( http://cell-lang.net/procedures.html ): > Main(String* args) { Print("Hello world!\n"); }