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Patty knows where Norman
will store her name and that part of her name
is a program
Patty the hacker gives
Norman 11 pieces of paper, each with a number representing
an ASCII character:
•SOLZHENGRAD is stored as 83-79-76-90-72-69-78-71-82-65-68.
•
Norman starts at mailbox 68
and replaces whatever was there before with the new
piece of paper. 83èmailbox #68, 79èmailbox #69, 76èmailbox #70, 90èmailbox #71, etc.