canopic jug writes:IBM researcher Charles Henderson has writtena blog post about shipping a 3G-enabled single board computer to companies to scan and infiltrate their insecure wireless networks from inside the physical premises. This attack method works when companies fail to adopt the zero-trust networking model hammered out already during the 1980s and mistakenly assume that anything connecting inside the network is safe. Henderson makes some recommendations while appearing to avoid addressing the fundamental problem.
This arrow looks like it is pointing right but it's actually pointing left. This illusion relies on a clever combination of reflection, perspective, and viewing angle. The illusion arrow was invented by mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University in Japan. Understandably, people vented their rage on social media.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
darkfeline writes:Since we had an article espousing Vi(m)'s signature feature of operator composability, it seems only fair to talk about Emacs's signature feature, extensibility.This article does a good job, in my opinion, of describing the Emacs epiphany.
martyb writes:Is it Safe to use an Electric fan for Cooling?Ignoring Betteridge's Law of Headlines, it appears that different guidelines have been promulgated regarding when it is, and is not, safe and effective to use a fan to cool off.
[Editor's note: Though this story is nearly 5 years old, it seems to provide a nice summary of some of the various capabilities that vim offers. There is much more detail in the linked article than in this excerpt. Hopefully, in reading through that article newcomers will gain perspective and long-time-users may happen upon something useful they'd never seen before.]An Anonymous Coward writes:http://ismail.badawi.io/blog/2014/04/23/the-compositional-nature-of-vim/