I couldn't agree more - as another person with Aspbergers I feel that this article tried to fit us in to the broken genius pattern, rather than recognize that these kind of syndromes manifest themselves differently in every person.
I am in no way special or helped by my syndrome, I am not difficult to work with, I am not in any way disabled, like normal people I have issues with emotional repression and other peoples point of view, but that being said I am human, first and foremost.
No one (outside of medical and psychological circles) except my girlfriend, mum and best friend know I have Aspbergers, my differences are just a part of my personality.
Facebook and Google have to do a lot of penetration tests to keep their security in tip-top shape, sure, they have a much larger attack vector in terms of code but my point is there:
Where there is public facing code, there is vulnerability.
Regardless of if you are built on Django, CodeIgniter, Rails or super-secret-obfuscated-language-mark-two, no application is bullet proof and it would be trivial for any highly skilled security tester to interface this way with your database.
No, I understood the context of his message, but allow me to articulate further: "While it may be against the norm around these parts for a simple post of agreement or gratitude, it doesn't harm the community, on the other hand, it lets the OP know that posts of this kind are good and to do more of them in the future."
However, I agree, sometimes it's nice to have something positive to read in the midst of constructive criticism.
The keys it is sending appear to be in pairs, in sets of 16, if you concatenate them you get the 32bit entire key. All of the keys are presented in hexadecmial format, you will notice none of the letters go above f. Most of the keys sent end in eight 0's, this would me to believe that this is padding and infact, the two keys concatenate to build up one 32bit string, but if you look carefully you will note that some of them only have 7bits of padding on the end, so I will disregard this assumption.
These tweets appear to originate from Russia.
Now, common uses of 16bit (and 32bit) encryption keys are for WEP keys, traditionally used in router password protection, which can be provided either in a full ASCII spectrum or in merely hexadecimal format.
Taking these points together I can conclude that these could possibly be the encrypted WEP keys of a Russian router.
Or I could be totally wrong, but I really wasn't given much to work with :)
I'm not sure you are correct, I began teaching my little sister the most basic forms of programming a few months ago, she's 9 and now she can easily form and use arrays, functions, database loops and simple OOP.
She isn't anywhere near what I would consider a "good" programmer, but she is capable and for her age her intelligence level is phenomenal.
I am in no way special or helped by my syndrome, I am not difficult to work with, I am not in any way disabled, like normal people I have issues with emotional repression and other peoples point of view, but that being said I am human, first and foremost.
No one (outside of medical and psychological circles) except my girlfriend, mum and best friend know I have Aspbergers, my differences are just a part of my personality.