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> Cliff Stoll There's a word for incidences where you hear something once, and then see it everywhere. I just looked him up[1] the other day because someone li
by pyre 10y ago
> Cliff Stoll
There's a word for incidences where you hear something once, and then see it everywhere. I just looked him up[1] the other day because someone linked to this article[2] elsewhere, and I happened to decide to look up the author of the article.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
[2] http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306 http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...
- SpaceManiac 10y agoIt's known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
- Chinjut 10y agoAlso known as the "frequency illusion", though this is less picturesque
- FrankBooth 10y agoHuh, I was just reading about that.
- azatris 10y agoDespite seeing it everywhere, it doesn't mean that it's false. Ever since I learned about selection bias, I see it everywhere.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoThere's a wonderful full hour-long dramatic reënactment of the hacking incident Cliff Stoll was involved in (the one ChuckMcM was referring to), with the actual people and locations: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kgb+computer+and+me https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kgb+computer+an...