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		jon-wood on April 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xkcd: Heartbleed Explanation So instead you could be communicating with a marginally less dumb box, which nods and replies with whatever you said instead?

dferlemann on April 11, 2014 [–]

If it can reply whatever you requested accurately, then the established 2-way communication can be said to have the same quality.

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