Read BINARY with your EYES like a PRO

🔊 Turn up the volume! Let's reach 2000 likes 💜 Ever seen wanna-be hackers using text-to-binary encoders to pretend being super smart and secretive? It is not a very ingenious method they are using ... in this video, I will show you how to do this in your mind.

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[sdbadik]

You know a video is good when you already know everything it teaches about but you still watch to the end

[SheaTDM]

im such a l33t hacker now, thank you fly.

[bruh-vyhe]

i cant read 30 mins for an exam but i can sit here all day practicing this

[wr]

the hardest part (or slowest part) is to convert the alphabet (for me atleast)
one trick i use to speed up the process is to learn every 4 characters so i have closer checkpoint to count from compare to always starting from A

[silli_cat]

I decoded it yay
"The fly runs at midnight."
I never actually fully translated to hex but kept it instead as 6 14 instead of 6E for example, as it's still understandable like that, if not even easier to read

[gengar-]

Feedback: Maybe you could amp up the voiceover in post. I always do it in Audacity, and the reason why I do it is because my headset microphone is just so quiet.

[username_not_found]

Could you do a video like this for various color encodings? I think it would be pretty neat to be able to easily convert from RGB to hex to HSV in my head.

[nuggetbugget]

If I wanted to hide information without using a proper encryption algorithm such as AES 256, then I would take the binary values for each letter, bit flip all the bits and use a rolling xor on it. This would act as a very basic form of encryption that is easy to crack. Binary is not meant to be used to hide information and is not a form of encryption which is why it shouldn’t be used to hide messages. If I wanted to hide a message from someone using any means necessary, then I would encrypt it with RSA 4096, write down the encrypted message, delete all logs that mention it, fold the paper I wrote it down on and put in a place that is hard to find.

[Pikachuuun]

an alternate way to think about mentally translating is through _not_ separating it into 2 chunks of 4 bits, but splitting it depending on the presence of the 0x40 bit. when it exists, split into a chunk of 3 and a chunk of 5, i.e. (O) and [011, 01001] (k). otherwise, split it into 4/4, like in [0011, 0010] (2) or [0010, 0001] (!). this assumes alphanumeric with simple punctuation.
solution to both of the smart l33t hacker puzzles is in the reply to prevent auto-spoilers. i'll also actually show my work, which should hopefully demonstrate this system in action.

[nathbarbosa]

That is a good idea, but i find that skipping the hex parts works better
Seeing that only the 5 least significant bits denotes the letter, you could just convert those 5 bits to decimal and count the letter position in the alphabet
And if you want to know if it's an upper or lower case letter
010 in the start is uppercase
011 in the start is lowercase

[iamdarkyoshi]

Fly's back, and with a voiceover! :D

[Slawa_Saporogez]

But keep in mind that you need to know about ASCII table in the first place. Web devs don't know it usually, because they have no need for it.

[boalbads]

this has summed up my computer science gcse lessons that ive been doing over 2 months now in 8 minutes

[christiankm]

i'm too lazy to do the challenges, but it's nice to see you're back

[arjunhb]

Earlier I tried very hard to remember ASCII but it didn't worked and now I can say ASCII is so easy all thanks to you.

[melsbacksfriend]

Zed or zee depending on what you like to call it. I guess that means Americans "like to" refer to the generic name for Lays as "chips" and British people "like to" use the term "crisps". Regional names are just people in different countries liking different things lol.

[satyabratmalik]

i really enjoyed this format, nothing was wrong with the previous one but now your videos feel more alive.

[JustPyroYT]

This is very cool! ❤

I really like this style of videos! :)

[__christopher__]

Just a nitpick: The 0x is *not* part of the hex number, it is just how C and languages derived from C (or designed by programmers that are used to such languages) happen to mark hex numbers. The traditional way to mark hex numbers is to add "h" to the end, such as 69h (assemblers often require a leading zero if the first digit was a letter, to prevent it being interpreted as label, so 255 would be written as 0ffh). In other contexts the fact that it's a hex number is clear from the start, therefore you don't mark it specially at all; an example would be IPv6 addresses, but also hex dumps.

[cmyk]

I actually find it easier to deal with a 3 - 5 bit split
001 space
001 1????: digits (0000~1001)
010 uppercase (00001~11010)
011 lowercase (00001~11010)