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Comment by ihaveajob

Comment by ihaveajob 5 days ago

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I first learned about this while reading Cryptonomicon. It seemed too fantastical to be a real thing.

hackernudes 4 days ago

Pretty sure it was in Snow Crash

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  • ihaveajob 2 days ago

    No, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon#Technical_conten...

    It was in a passage where some secondary character was in a prison cell and managed to spy on the screen across the wall using the technique.

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