@forrestbrazeal It's a subplot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky where the ancient hacker can break all the new tech because he's such a relic that he still understands the underlying technology it's all built on, which the current generation of techies have completely detached themselves from, operating so many layers of abstraction higher than him that they can't begin to understand how he could have possibly undermined all their fancy gadgets so completely.