I believe the professors that helped originate this idea were a group of hacker PhD students from UC Santa Barbara that moved over to Arizona State. Adam Doupe was my professor his first year and an absolutely stellar academic and teacher.
Yep I think this list is pretty up to date on the folks involved: https://pwn.college/sensei
And you’re right very good memory! Zardus and I were first PhD students at UCSB then became professors at ASU, and at ASU kanak’s PhD dissertation was on pwn.college
This led to the CSS `text-wrap` property, and `text-wrap: pretty`[2], but pretty is not supported in FF yet, and the value `pretty` doesn't mandate Knuth's algorithm.
[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/P...
simpler times
It's a science-backed result that doing so massively improves compliance, it's a trick usually taught in soft skills training (negotiation, etc).
I first read this in Robert Cialdini's "Influence: Science and Practice" which is both entertaining and interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence:_Science_and_Practic...
pwn.college is the most fun I've had in cybersecurity probably ever. The community in discord is also very friendly and helpful.
this and telehack.com is nice entertainment
Nothing says "hacker culture" like voluntarily submitting your photo ID and a real-time facial scan to big brother so your de-anonymized communications can be permanently logged and used against you by the state as soon as a future administration decides you're a disfavored person.
This is not a very hacker-like mindset!