I saved your comment so that I can get back to you. The one I just ordered at my library might just be it. It say, “full French text” with translation of Richard Howard + illustrations.

I hate what popular culture has done with our perception of hacking. Hacking almost always involves social engineering as a means to open a backdoor into a system: you trick the end user into for instance giving up login credentials or installing a program that “phones home” to a command and control center. You’ll have to research the details on your own, but depending on what information has been “phoned home” or in other ways acquired by the adversary (login credentials, IP address, hardware and software identifiers, etc.), the adversary can then deploy further tools that either exploit known programmatic vulnerabilities or that elevate the adversary’s privileges on the target system, with the goal of attaining enough control to do whatever the objective was in the first place (gathering PII, bank info, leaking private media, distortion, what have you…).

Android is great at a very specific task, which is to isolate processes into something I can’t seem to recall right now… Maybe “zygotes”? Basically it gives the user granular control over interprocess communication. It also effectively reduces attack surface by isolating infection/damage.

On Windows, for instance, programs are allowed to elevate their own privileges - for the convenience of the end user, I suppose - which is of course INSANE, considering that the greater Windows user base probably don’t have the cyber hygiene required to operate safely within those premises.

I’m too sleepy to go on, but “google” and read: hacking, backdoor, exploit, social engineering, privilege elevation

Yeah, no, I get that. I just have a tendency to linger on the negative, even if there is absolution or repentance at the end. I’m working on it… XD

All this talk about Tom and Jerry made me remember one of my favorite themes of Western animation from my childhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAVtSrkIhI

WOW! How blessed a person are you, having Nausicaä to be the FIRST anime you watch! :D I can’t quite recall the… wait. WAIT. La la la lala la’ la’ laa. I do remember the iconic child’s song! :D Didn’t it give you existential crisis? I made me have such dark and negative feeling toward humanity as a whole - a lot of Ghibli movies did…

Tom and Jerry LOL I do feel that western animation can be more shallow - being only or mostly about the visuals - while anime, unless it’s hentai, more often seems to have a deeper meaning.

How cool of your dad to share those DVD with you! :D Wow, it must have been confusing to watch GT before Z. No? I haven’t heard Champloo being mentioned for such a long time. Thank you for reminding me to watch it again! :)