Collaborate Disseminate
Affordable and reliable cell phones have revolutionized the way we communicate over the last two decades or so, and this change was only accelerated by the adoption of the smartphone. …read more Continue reading Long-Distance Text Communication with LoRa
The handheld computing market might seem dominated by smartphones today, but before their mass adoption there were other offerings for those who needed some computing power on-the-go. If a 90s …read more Continue reading IBM PalmTop Running Modern (Modified) Linux
One of the nice things about reading electronic text is the fact that if there’s a word you don’t understand, you can just highlight it to perform a Google search. Well, a device called the Googstick is designed to do the same thing for paper-printed t… Continue reading Googstick lets users select and search printed text
One time-proven method to make a lesson memorable is to make it a story, but that is not easy if your core material is the repair log of a rotted out analog ammeter. Most folks don’t need a 300A meter on their drill press, so [Build Comics] converted it to …read more
Convincing SMS messages tell victims that they’ve been selected for a pre-release trial for the soon-to-be-launched device. Continue reading Free Apple iPhone 12? Chatbot Scam Spreads Via Texts
Sindhi-language characters can crash iPhones and other iOS/macOS devices if a victim views texts, Twitter posts or messages within various apps containing them. Continue reading Latest Apple Text-Bomb Crashes iPhones via Message Notifications
Getting bounced to a website by scanning a QR code is no longer an exciting feat of technology, but what if you scanned the ingredient list on your granola bar and it went to the company’s page for that specific flavor, sans the matrix code?
Bright minds at the Columbia University in the City of New York have “perturbed” ordinary font characters so the average human eye won’t pick up the changes. Even ordinary OCR won’t miss a beat when it looks at a passage with a hidden message. After all, these “perturbed” glyphs are like a perfectly legible character …read more
This post will explain the improvements that Microsoft has made by making the next-generation alert system of Azure generally available.
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Fingerprinting text is really very nifty; the ability to encode hidden data within a string of characters opens up a large number of opportunities. For example, someone within your team is leaking confidential information but you don’t know who. Simply send each team member some classified text with their name encoded in it. Wait for it to be leaked, then extract the name from the text — the classic canary trap.
Here’s a method that hides data in text using zero-width characters. Unlike various other ways of text fingerprinting, zero width characters are not removed if the formatting is stripped, …read more
Continue reading Hide Secret Messages In Plain Sight With Zero-Width Characters
The text-only strategy game once had 100,000 players. Its new owners want to bring it back to its former glory. Continue reading I Talked to the Guys Who Bought ‘Utopia’