• DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I’ve shared it with) some time ago:

    Electrical signals are serial; they’re connectionless, like UDP.

    Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.

      • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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        1 year ago

        I’ve got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war.

        “No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world”