Motley been recently thought to be one pattern with different coloured threads running through it. Motley Motley is the traditional costume of the court jester, fool, or the harlequin character in "commedia dell'arte". The harlequin wears a patchwork of red, green and blue diamonds that is still a fashion motif. The word "motley" is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as a cognate of "medley", although the unrelated "mottled" has also contributed to the meaning. The word is most commonly used as an adjective or noun, but is also seen as a verb and adverb. When used as a noun, it
The Jester (hacktivist) QR code ran quietly for five days before a Twitter user going by the moniker @RootDial noticed the embedded code and mentioned it. In those five days, The Jester wrote "Over 1,200 curious netizens scanned the QR code . . . Of those, over 500 devices reverse-shelled back to the listening server. Of those, a significant number were on the '[hit]-list' and as such treated as valid targets." On March 12, The Jester posted an encrypted file containing the data harvested from his QR code. In a private communication, SecurityNewsDaily asked The Jester why he'd encrypted the information rather than