One of the primary drivers for me leaving $FORMER_EMPLOYER in the mid 2010s was a requirement to support IE6 on XP, pixel-perfect, alongside Safari on Windows. Seriously, what kind of firm uses Safari on Windows and IE6 by that time.

IE did sterling work on every Windows install I touched. Admittedly only to download Firefox or Chrome, but nevertheless IE served a purpose and did it well.

Should do CALL !-4 to reset the BBC surely

It's an arms race. As the malware gets more sophisticated at evasion, the sandbox will be made smarter to counter this. Complexity and sophistication will increase. Eventually, they will get smart enough to pass the Turing Test in order to stay in the game.

You can play Yellow River Kingdom here: JSBeeb. Shift-F12 to boot the Welcome disk and go through the programs till you reach it, or just enter CH."W.KINGDOM" to load it directly. (It's been ~25 years since I last typed that, but that particular bunch of neurons fired as if it were yesterday).

The only way to truly understand C is to read the CPU circuit design on which the application will run. Otherwise you are only assuming what the CPU will actually do with the opcodes generated during assembly. See 6502 opcode 8B (XAA)

When the only hammer you have is C++, every problem looks like a thumb.

File under genre "ambient horror": Dial-up modem slowed down
I could listen to this all day. And probably will.

IEEE magazines. Still available in print, if you want to pay the extra, or electronic format if you like trees. IEEE Security and Privacy and IEEE Software work for me. And if these are too lightweight, there's always the IEEE Transactions on $SUBJECT.

I've upgraded to ROT26 to make it twice as hard for the NSA to read my cookie recipes.

You're holding it wrong. Not that big of a deal.

sudo open the pod bay doors Hal

OK

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From the 2004 International Obfuscated C Code Contest!

640 MK should be hot enough for anybody.

The program is obviously written in the Whitespace Language.