The last bastion of calculator is the school where students can use the help of it to compute some awkward values but are discouraged from cheating by use of internet or LLMs.
1902, two vulnerabilities in the Marconi Wireless Telegraph is where I start my history of vulnerability talk, then move into WW2 and the electromechanical rotor cipher machines, on to phone systems followed by mainframes. Once you hit early mainframe vulns, there simply aren't stories around them like the prior. So I appreciate you looking at history from this perspective.
I love this article, in part from the lovely introduction talking of the mistaken intertwining of the histories of counting and calculation with that of the computer, and also from the great and beautiful items it covers. Thanks for sharing!
Great article! I think that the Curta is also so popular because of William Gibson's book "Pattern Recognition".
The last bastion of calculator is the school where students can use the help of it to compute some awkward values but are discouraged from cheating by use of internet or LLMs.
1902, two vulnerabilities in the Marconi Wireless Telegraph is where I start my history of vulnerability talk, then move into WW2 and the electromechanical rotor cipher machines, on to phone systems followed by mainframes. Once you hit early mainframe vulns, there simply aren't stories around them like the prior. So I appreciate you looking at history from this perspective.
I love this article, in part from the lovely introduction talking of the mistaken intertwining of the histories of counting and calculation with that of the computer, and also from the great and beautiful items it covers. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome article and an impressive collection :)