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Totally off topic, but I love that XKEYSCORE sounds like a Redis command. There has to be an opportunity for some sort of practical joke here but I can't find i
by skrebbel 6y ago
Totally off topic, but I love that XKEYSCORE sounds like a Redis command. There has to be an opportunity for some sort of practical joke here but I can't find it.
- rathel 6y agoThey always sound so memorable yet mysterious, especially so the ones created by concatenation of two ordinary words, like ETERNALBLUE or FOGBANK. We should make a GPT-based generator of USA secret codenames ;)
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- privong 6y ago> We should make a GPT-based generator of USA secret codenames ;) I'd read somewhere (can't remember where, unfortunately) that program code names were randomly generated by selecting words from two lists. The idea is that, if (accidentally) revealed, the name wouldn't provide any information about the program's function. The thing I read said people would often re-query the generator until they got a name that they liked.
- captn3m0 6y agoLikely the British Military research projects. >Each rainbow code name was constructed from a randomly selected colour, plus an (often appropriate) noun taken from a list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes
- privong 6y ago> Likely the British Military research projects. Sounds similar, but whatever I had read was about the US intelligence community. Perhaps it was Edward Snowden's book.