Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)-sometimes known as "quick codes" or "feature codes"-is an extra-UI protocol, which allows people to access hidden features. secret pathways planted by programmers)? Well, that's actually a thing.Ĭoders have a storied tradition of baking in secret passageways (or sometimes, just fun little Easter eggs) that can only be accessed by inputting a special "key." And so that tradition continues in the mobile age. Remember that scene in War Games when the socially broken code monkeys were explaining to aspiring hacker Matthew Broderick all about "back doors" (i.e.
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