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kgyesterday at 2:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you hand me two sheets of paper, one of them containing instructions and another containing data, I'll have a pretty easy time keeping them separate, and I think most humans wouldn't struggle with that problem either.


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Marha01yesterday at 3:04 PM

> If you hand me two sheets of paper, one of them containing instructions and another containing data, I'll have a pretty easy time keeping them separate

You think. But there are ways around that. How about a credible extortion message targeting specifically you, that is embedded somewhere on the data sheet? Suddenly, the data has become the instructions...

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susueuhsjeyesterday at 4:16 PM

The code sheet says take some bits from the data sheet and interpret it as if it were on the code sheet.