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People like that is the reason why this list was created https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blob/master/blns.json https://github.com/mini

by xyst 6y ago

People like that is the reason why this list was created https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blob/master/blns.json https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo... My personal favorite is this one though "If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.",

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Buildstarted 6y ago
Most of the things in this list I can see what they're testing for but your favorite stumps me. Can you give me a hint? Thanks.
- lyrrad 6y ago
  I assume it's a joke to test if reality is a simulation or a dream.
  - Buildstarted 6y ago
    That makes complete sense and it went right over my head. Thanks
  - m463 6y ago
    When Elon Musk was talking about reality vs simulation, I couldn't help but think he's onto something If you were going to play a simulation game, you would not be a normal participant. You would not play a normal person, you would play the successful guy at the top launching spaceships and making money. So - the chances of Elon Musk being in a simulation are very high compared to normal people.
    - pyhtel 6y ago
      I would assume most simulations would be more academic/business related, like how we have tools that simulate a wind tunnel, rather than for entertainment purposes
    - fidelramos 6y ago
      The entities running the simulation knew you would think like that, which is why they put Elon Musk there so the simulated you thinks "nah, if I were simulated my life would be awesome".
    - AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
      I had the exact opposite take, that him talking about that is (further) evidence he's a bit off his rocker. Not that being off his rocker is necessarily a problem. In fact, it might be the only reason he's doing interesting stuff with his wealth instead of just trying to turn it into more wealth for the sake of a high score.
    - nkrisc 6y ago
      But I'm not Elon Musk, and I'm not super rich and successful, so therefore I am real and he is as well and not a simulation. I don't know what things are like your simulation, however.
    - sumtechguy 6y ago
      His mistake in his assumption is all games are the same. Sometimes I play a game that is kind of 'boring' and relaxing like a bit of solitaire. Other times I play a fragfest with 15 other people looking to take my head off. Sometimes I intend to play something exciting and end up playing max/min stats. Sometimes I just suck at the game...
m463 6y ago
what a great github repo. I enjoyed: # Strings that may occur on IRC clients that make security products freak out DCC SEND STARTKEYLOGGER 0 0 0 and everything under: # Innocuous strings which may be blocked by profanity filters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)
- monsieurbanana 6y ago
  I'm surprised about Scunthorpe, if any name with a profanity substring would trigger the filter I'd have thought this issue would be more common than Scunthorpe.
  - brazzy 6y ago
    Yeah, such a filter would be a mbuttive problem due to all the mimanures.
    - snakeboy 6y ago
      This could exists a fun puzzle genre, replacing substforbidds of words with synonyms. Perhaps with muloanle dened itefractionns. Could even have replacementb agrosb lade boundaries.
- Cyykratahk 6y ago
  Found some GitHub issues [1] with something similar: an enterprise firewall blocking a repo because it contained the string "arglebargleglopglyf" [2] in some tests. The text was flagged as malicious because of its presence in the repo github.com/wireghoul/htshells [3]. However, the whole point of the word in the htshells repo is that it's an invalid command that breaks Apache, so it could have been almost any random string. [1] https://github.com/search?q=arglebargleglopglyf&type=issues https://github.com/search?q=arglebargleglopglyf&type=issues [2] https://mume.org/help/arglebargle https://mume.org/help/arglebargle [3] https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells/blob/master/dos/apache.dos.htaccess https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells/blob/master/dos/apache...
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scoutt 6y ago
I can get why testing for "Jimmy Clitheroe" and "Horniman Museum", but can't make a reason for "Linda Callahan".
- will0 6y ago
  Perhaps it's 'allah'?
- m463 6y ago
  In February 2006, Linda Callahan was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah. Yahoo! later reversed the ban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
  - slim 6y ago
    that was unexpected. but I guess I should have expected it given how much islam is iconoclastic. it's probably muslims protesting the use of the name of allah in email addresses that caused it (alternate explanation: the word was raising too much false positives in Xkeyscore)
    - uncomputation 6y ago
      1. That’s not what iconoclastic means. If you actually care about iconoclasm in Islam, the Saudi government has unfortunately destroyed almost 90% of Muslim holy sites without a word from other countries. 2. The Second Commandment Christians follow is “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” and I can tell you a lot of Christians follow that. 3. You have it backwards. It’s not Muslims’ fear of the name of God, it’s Yahoo’s fear of literally just the Arabic word for “God.”
      - kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
        It's their fear of people constructing offensive names (<deity>-sucks, etc.) that will spark another Charlie Hebdo incident.
emilsedgh 6y ago
I have to confess this freaked me out well played!
0xdeadbeefbabe 6y ago
Why is "nop" your personal favorite? I don't get it.
anonymfus 6y ago
I am surprised that the EICAR test string is not here: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
- tryauuum 6y ago
  From README — Likewise, please do not send pull requests which compromise manual usability of the file. This includes the [EICAR test string](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file), which can cause the file to be flagged by antivirus scanners, and files which alter the encoding of `blns.txt`. Also, do not send a null character (U+0000) string, as it [changes the file format on GitHub to binary](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19723302 http://stackoverflow.com/a/19723302) and renders it unreadable in pull requests. Finally, when adding or removing a string please update all files when you perform a pull request.
Turing_Machine 6y ago
+++ATH0 That one normally only worked reliably if you could figure out some way of introducing a short delay between the +++ and the ATH. There may have been some crap modems that didn't require the delay, but that wasn't the spec. (the 0 was not necessary, btw, as 0 is the default for the ATH command)

by xyst 6y ago

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Buildstarted 6y ago

Most of the things in this list I can see what they're testing for but your favorite stumps me. Can you give me a hint? Thanks.

lyrrad 6y ago
I assume it's a joke to test if reality is a simulation or a dream.
- Buildstarted 6y ago
  That makes complete sense and it went right over my head. Thanks
- m463 6y ago
  When Elon Musk was talking about reality vs simulation, I couldn't help but think he's onto something If you were going to play a simulation game, you would not be a normal participant. You would not play a normal person, you would play the successful guy at the top launching spaceships and making money. So - the chances of Elon Musk being in a simulation are very high compared to normal people.
  - pyhtel 6y ago
    I would assume most simulations would be more academic/business related, like how we have tools that simulate a wind tunnel, rather than for entertainment purposes
  - fidelramos 6y ago
    The entities running the simulation knew you would think like that, which is why they put Elon Musk there so the simulated you thinks "nah, if I were simulated my life would be awesome".
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
    I had the exact opposite take, that him talking about that is (further) evidence he's a bit off his rocker. Not that being off his rocker is necessarily a problem. In fact, it might be the only reason he's doing interesting stuff with his wealth instead of just trying to turn it into more wealth for the sake of a high score.
  - nkrisc 6y ago
    But I'm not Elon Musk, and I'm not super rich and successful, so therefore I am real and he is as well and not a simulation. I don't know what things are like your simulation, however.
  - sumtechguy 6y ago
    His mistake in his assumption is all games are the same. Sometimes I play a game that is kind of 'boring' and relaxing like a bit of solitaire. Other times I play a fragfest with 15 other people looking to take my head off. Sometimes I intend to play something exciting and end up playing max/min stats. Sometimes I just suck at the game...

m463 6y ago

what a great github repo. I enjoyed: # Strings that may occur on IRC clients that make security products freak out DCC SEND STARTKEYLOGGER 0 0 0 and everything under: # Innocuous strings which may be blocked by profanity filters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem)

monsieurbanana 6y ago
I'm surprised about Scunthorpe, if any name with a profanity substring would trigger the filter I'd have thought this issue would be more common than Scunthorpe.
- brazzy 6y ago
  Yeah, such a filter would be a mbuttive problem due to all the mimanures.
  - snakeboy 6y ago
    This could exists a fun puzzle genre, replacing substforbidds of words with synonyms. Perhaps with muloanle dened itefractionns. Could even have replacementb agrosb lade boundaries.
Cyykratahk 6y ago
Found some GitHub issues [1] with something similar: an enterprise firewall blocking a repo because it contained the string "arglebargleglopglyf" [2] in some tests. The text was flagged as malicious because of its presence in the repo github.com/wireghoul/htshells [3]. However, the whole point of the word in the htshells repo is that it's an invalid command that breaks Apache, so it could have been almost any random string. [1] https://github.com/search?q=arglebargleglopglyf&type=issues https://github.com/search?q=arglebargleglopglyf&type=issues [2] https://mume.org/help/arglebargle https://mume.org/help/arglebargle [3] https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells/blob/master/dos/apache.dos.htaccess https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells/blob/master/dos/apache...
- 6y ago

scoutt 6y ago

I can get why testing for "Jimmy Clitheroe" and "Horniman Museum", but can't make a reason for "Linda Callahan".

will0 6y ago
Perhaps it's 'allah'?
m463 6y ago
In February 2006, Linda Callahan was initially prevented from registering her name with Yahoo! as an e-mail address as it contained the substring Allah. Yahoo! later reversed the ban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
- slim 6y ago
  that was unexpected. but I guess I should have expected it given how much islam is iconoclastic. it's probably muslims protesting the use of the name of allah in email addresses that caused it (alternate explanation: the word was raising too much false positives in Xkeyscore)
  - uncomputation 6y ago
    1. That’s not what iconoclastic means. If you actually care about iconoclasm in Islam, the Saudi government has unfortunately destroyed almost 90% of Muslim holy sites without a word from other countries. 2. The Second Commandment Christians follow is “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” and I can tell you a lot of Christians follow that. 3. You have it backwards. It’s not Muslims’ fear of the name of God, it’s Yahoo’s fear of literally just the Arabic word for “God.”
    - kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
      It's their fear of people constructing offensive names (<deity>-sucks, etc.) that will spark another Charlie Hebdo incident.

emilsedgh 6y ago

I have to confess this freaked me out well played!

0xdeadbeefbabe 6y ago

Why is "nop" your personal favorite? I don't get it.

anonymfus 6y ago

I am surprised that the EICAR test string is not here: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

tryauuum 6y ago
From README — Likewise, please do not send pull requests which compromise manual usability of the file. This includes the [EICAR test string](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file), which can cause the file to be flagged by antivirus scanners, and files which alter the encoding of `blns.txt`. Also, do not send a null character (U+0000) string, as it [changes the file format on GitHub to binary](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19723302 http://stackoverflow.com/a/19723302) and renders it unreadable in pull requests. Finally, when adding or removing a string please update all files when you perform a pull request.

Turing_Machine 6y ago

+++ATH0 That one normally only worked reliably if you could figure out some way of introducing a short delay between the +++ and the ATH. There may have been some crap modems that didn't require the delay, but that wasn't the spec. (the 0 was not necessary, btw, as 0 is the default for the ATH command)