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The more I learn about other languages, the more I've come to think that English is a sort of creole which has spread so far and to so many people as to be called a "language" now. It didn't even have any consistent spelling or usage put down in a dictionary until just a few hundred years ago. It is the result of three or four linguistic collisions over the centuries. 
I came up with the Gartshore Cipher to be a low security cipher with the unique property that enciphering and deciphering can be done entirely in the users head — once you get good at it, you won't even need a pencil and paper to decipher messages. 
Purpose-built, Internet-facing servers (e.g., front-end web servers) have no need for n% of the functionality in their OSs and bundled applications. Yet these latter two groups of code are often the basis of the amplification and propagation of exploits.
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