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by FreeFull 4117 days ago
Better look for consecutive sixes in both hexadecimal and decimal, too.
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Pattern recognition would be needed due to the sheer number of potential vectors for evil numbers (auto-assigned client-side tcp port numbers, 'evil bit' tcp flag, network-order bitstream integers, packed binary objects, memory allocation/access, user ids, etc). There's a lot of potential mysticism we haven't touched on with either cryptography or AI....
Hexadecimal: the numeric base of Deep Black Magic.