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<h1>February 2022</h1>
<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/integral.jpg"/><a href="benford.html">The peculiar Benford distribution</a><p><i>Benford's law</i> or the <i>first digit rule</i> states that in many data sets, the first digit of each value tends to be small. This is not at all obvious, but it has significant implications.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="mathematics-groupindex.html">mathematics</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/unicode_logo.png"/><a href="bidi.html">How Unicode reading direction characters defeat source code inspection, and what it means for the open-source movement</a><p>There's been a recent scare that Unicode reading direction characters could be used to conceal malicious code in open-source projects. This is undoubtedly true, but that fact doesn't make it significantly harder to ensure the security of open-source code than it already is.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="software_development-groupindex.html">software development</a>, <a href="security-groupindex.html">security</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/terminal.png"/><a href="cwordle.html">cwordle -- A Wordle-like word-guessing game for CP/M</a><p>Building a CP/M implementation of the notorious Wordle game.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="retrocomputing-groupindex.html">retrocomputing</a>, <a href="C-groupindex.html">C</a>, <a href="Z80-groupindex.html">Z80</a></p>
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<div class="article-desc"><img class="article-list-image" src="img/usb.png"/><a href="juice-jacking.html">Juice-jacking -- it's a problem, but not because it's a problem</a><p>Juice-jacking is the alleged practice of getting unauthorized access to the contents of a cellphone by subverting public USB charging points. It doesn't happen, and probably never has; so why has there been a recent increase in scare stories?</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Categories: <a href="science_and_technology-groupindex.html">science and technology</a>, <a href="security-groupindex.html">security</a></p>
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