#1808: Hacking

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Ponytail is writing on her laptop at her desk while Cueball looks over her shoulder.]

Ponytail: You know how sometimes people put a space in their email address to make it harder to harvest?

Cueball: Yeah?

Ponytail: They have a tool that can delete the space!

Cueball: Oh my god.

[Caption below the panel:]

Less-dramatic revelations from the CIA hacking dump

(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:The dump also contains a list of millions of prime factors, a 0-day Tamagotchi exploit, and a technique for getting gcc and bash to execute arbitrary code.


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