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Re:Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor by JshWright on Sunday December 04, 2016 @07:52PM (#13102660)
It's a program that spits out all the printable strings from a binary file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(Unix)

EDIT: lol... we're all so helpful (4 replies all at '0 minutes ago' at the moment)

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Re:Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor by tomrod on Sunday December 04, 2016 @08:04PM (#13102706)
THIS! This is why I love hacker news. Much thanks for the pointer. I've never actually used (or, I believe, needed to directly use) strings before. Thanks so much.
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Re:Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor by _joel on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:53AM (#13104647)
Please be careful when running strings, if possible, don't, as it can be used as an attack surface. Just take a look at CVE-2014-8485 if you need clarification.
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Re:Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor by tomrod on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:42PM (#13108004)
Thank you for the heads up.
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