Continuing our computer security and hacking theme round.
This is Edward Snowden. What is he doing? Bonus cookie points if you tell the exact name of the exploit he is defending himself from.
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Unlocking his phone and doing it under a blanket to protect himself from Shoulder surfing attacks.
Continuing our hacking and computer security theme round.
xkcd explaining one of the most widespread and easily exploitable vulnerabilities in recent times. In fact, the need to patch the vulnerability so urgent, security researchers wore marketing hats, created a logo and gave it a name to raise awareness (it worked really well!). Identify the exploit.
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This man “wanted to count the number of computers on the internet” and unleashed a now legendary piece of software causing a lot of “damage”. Who is he? Fake Bonus points if you explain the post title.
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Robert Tappan Morris, author of the Morris worm, which is arguably more piece of art.
Continuing our theme round. Made famous by Silicon Valley, but this device is real and used quite frequently by hackers. What is this?
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Wifi Pineapple, used for MITM attacks on wifi connections.
Theme round! Next few questions will be focused on hacking and computer security. Broadly.
In one of the earliest known instances of “hacking”, Person 1 (below) hacked a public demo of 2’s invention to show that it was not “safe and secure” as claimed 2. Identify 1.
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Nevil Maskelyne hacked Marconi’s public demo of a Morse Code transmission to prove his invention was NOT secure.
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Bitcoin Mining bears a lot of resemblance to how Shell money from Solomon Islands were (are) made - taking a huge sell and laboriously grinding it down to a bead to prove work and also control supply of these coins. Exactly like Bitcoin hashing.
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Question for today: Identify this spacecraft, also launched 10 years ago.
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Phoenix Mars lander!
Enough of that algorithms round. A simple question today.
Who is in that white bunny suit? Bonus points if you explain the significance of this event.
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini hands Steve Jobs a silicon wafer onstage at WWDC in 2005
Continuing our Algorithm themed round is this plaintext question. This eponymous algorithm, made famous by Google and Akamai is used widely in databases, search engines and data analytics platforms to find if an element exists in a set or not. Which algorithm are we talking about?
Hint:
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Bloom Filter.
Continuing our Algorithm themed questions.
This man wanted to figure out the best way to lay out an electricity network in his country and came up with one of the most commonly used graph algorithms. Which algorithm are we talking about? Bonus points for identifying him.
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Otakar Borůvka’s Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm.