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In what year was the first hacker ever discovered?

Hackers have existed long before the advent of the first computers. Their first representative can be considered the Englishman Nevil Maskelyne, who was a professional magician and also well versed in technology.

After Marconi's successful experiments in transmitting messages overseas by wireless telegraph in 1901, Maskelyne was hired by one of the wire telegraph companies and tasked with discrediting the new technology.

The magician built a 50-meter radio tower to listen to the signals exchanged between ships and the shore, and found that there was no protection in the Marconi system, except for setting the transmitter to a certain frequency.

Maskelyne presented his discovery at a public demonstration of a wireless telegraph at the Royal Institution in London - even before the start of the show, the device suddenly started working and transmitted a text that Marconi was hanging noodles on people's ears.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is a squid?

In the days when Columbus sailed the seas, one could hear stories of long-armed monsters that rose from the water to sink a ship or drag a sailor to the bottom of the ocean.

These stories were exaggerations. Such monsters never existed, and sailors may have seen giant octopuses or squids. Both of these creatures belong to the molluscs, a family of cephalopods, because their legs are divided into long, arm-like tentacles that grow around their heads.

A typical squid has an elongated, lean body with triangular fins at the edges, a short square head with well-developed eyes, and ten tentacles. Below these tentacles (or arms) are rows of suction cups reinforced with strong, rigid rings. Two of these tentacles are longer and more flexible than the others. Suckers are concentrated at the tips of the tentacles, forming something like a "hand". Two long tentacles are used by the squid to grasp its prey. The remaining eight serve to ferry food into the squid's mouth, and also to hold it while it is chewed by its hard jaws located around the mouth in the center of the circle formed by the tentacles.

Deep under the mantle, or skin, is a cartilaginous plate, which is the remnant of a shell that the squid apparently once had. There are various squids, and one of them, the giant squid, is the largest invertebrate on Earth. Some individuals of the giant squid caught in the North Atlantic reach a length of 16 meters (with extended tentacles). Another group of giant squid reaches two meters in length. The squid, like the octopus and sepia, is able to release an inky liquid into the water to darken the surrounding water.

There is a group of phosphorescent, that is, emitting light, squids. Light organs are located on their mantle, tentacles, inside the cavity of the mantle and around the eyes. At night they seem very beautiful. Another squid, called "flying", is able to fly over the surface of the water.

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