“it also represents an impressive, sci-fi feat of sheer hacker ingenuity” Yeah, pretty much, and wasn’t this the plot in an episode of... something?https://twitter.com/geoffmanaugh/status/895728956724322304 …
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Hey, I’d read that paper 
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