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If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

It immediately reminded me of Stuxnet, which also from a technical perspective was quite interesting.

I already wonder if this was anything that was planted in the devices perviously, or if the ones responsible had similar devices, and managed reverse engineer them and craft a payload to them, that could be sent over existing cellular protocols/networks and then, similar to Stuxnet, make the device exagerte some existing functionality to a point where it caused a malfunction? Thoughts on this?

That was my bible back in the days, together with PC-GPE! As i remember there was a phone number in one of the files, and one day when i came home from school and my dad wasn't home, i secretly used our phone to make an international phone call to it. I had no idea what to say, so i just hung up as soon as the person on the other end answered!? :) Just hearing the voice of my idol was cool enough i guess.

I primarily use C, but C++ when the platform/compiler supports it.

I do mostly games and graphical demos on a wide range of exotic and retro hardware, which always has a C compiler, but not always a compiler that supports C++. Also, i feel like i have more control over every bit and clock cycle in C than in C++, although i know it’s technically possible to use C++11 on a Commodore 64.

On projects where i can use C++ i use the following tools: CMake, Clion (IDE), Catch2 testing framework. Often ImGUI for quick debugging UIs.