This reminds me of something I saw online maybe 20 years ago now. Someone created a torrent with a name like “every IP address ever (hacking tool)” and uploaded it to Suprnova, which ended up having thousands of people seeding it. It was just a text file with every IPv4 from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 😂
It very well might be a real exploit. Lemmy was briefly taken down by an XS attack using the emoji library… so who knows, maybe a 3000% smiley face is all that is needed
I think there a lot of phone scammers that use font size to hide all the shit they’re doing. Like they make shit so small so that the old people can’t see anything
Does anyone remember when something like this actually happened? Maybe it’s the Mandela effect but U sweat at one stage a whole heap of sites were using black/dark mode to save the planet
While being interrogated in his introduction sequence, he casually folds an aluminum chewing gum wrapper, puts it to his lips and kinda whistles with it for a second, while holding a cell phone in front of his mouth. After this little public display of phreaking, he hands the cell phone over to the hero and says “Here… now you can call anywhere free for life with it”.
The main reason I never got into Slow Horses was its utterly ridiculous stereotype of the “computer boffin”. It was so cack-handed it was almost hard to believe.
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