Sentence examples for unreadable format from inspiring English sources
The hackers discovered a security hole on an unprotected page that enabled them to access a data table that contained contact information including name, email address, telephone number, city location, and username, and that contained protected versions of user passwords, in an unreadable format called a one-way hash.
Unfortunately, today much government data is provided to the people in dirty, unreadable formats.
On the site, Guess had pledged that customer information was "stored in an unreadable, encrypted format at all times".
As one generation of digital magic replaces the next, archived materials must be repeatedly "migrated" to the new format, or risk becoming unreadable.
Formatting the drive as ext3 will make it unreadable on a Windows system and formatting as ntfs will make it read-only (you can't copy files onto it) on linux systems without the correct software.
These guys who are recovering video formats that have become unreadable by existing equipment play a similar role to the monks.
Changing fonts and colors, inserting bullet lists, or using HTML can make an email look bizarre or render it unreadable for the recipient, even if the formatting looks fine on your computer.
As we note in this week's print edition, the most common roads to oblivion are physical decay of the medium in which the data are stored, format changes and software updates that render files unreadable.
By contrast, keeping old datasets in proprietary formats may mean that the data are effectively unreadable in a few years.
"If 90percentt of defenders use the same characteristics, then the bad guys will try to modify and obfuscate". For instance, if a tool looks at whether a file has shifted from plain text to an encrypted format, attackers might encrypt only parts of a file to make it unreadable and unrecoverable, without signaling to software that it changed enough.
