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by Terr_ 488 days ago
This gives me a childhood flashback to a show called MathNet, an educational police procedural (a la Dragnet) where both investigators have holstered calculators.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnet

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and there were infamous hackers too

https://youtu.be/vNhBq3kjq_Q?t=2011

Taking advantage of an extra that wasn't charged to the customer?

Ah, that's a classic "use after free" vulnerability.

I cannot even tell you how many glorious memories this brings up! Thanks for a walk down memory lane.