The Viking behind Bluetooth
·413 words·2 mins
Bluetooth was only meant to be a temporary code name, borrowed from a Viking king. It never got replaced.
Friday Fun Facts
Every Friday, a true and sourced story about cybersecurity, DevOps, networking or web development: a famous incident, the origin of a term, a historic mistake. With, when possible, what we can still learn from it today.
2026
The 75-cent hacker
·375 words·2 mins
In 1986, a 75-cent gap in a lab’s billing led an astronomer turned sysadmin to a hacker selling secrets to the KGB.
