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Screen test

It has been a couple of weeks since we carried any of your bizarre Hollywood technology gripes, but Mark Pratt at JSR Farming Group asks: “I would like to know what type of computer screens they use on submarines, US government agency bunkers and seedy hacker bedrooms.
“They ‘project’ an image of the screen onto the operator’s face. And why is the text sometimes readable – surely it would be a mirror image?”
Backwards text on a submarine: we think that’s what they call encryption.

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