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Why is the NSA so good at coming up with sweet codenames for things? I swear it's someone's full time job there.
by sushisource 5y ago
Why is the NSA so good at coming up with sweet codenames for things? I swear it's someone's full time job there.
- elzbardico 5y agoFar better names than Microsoft or IBM
- hbn 5y agoMicrosoft Integrated Microcomputer Plug-and-Play Cable Office 365 Extended Subscription for Workgroups 2021 Powered by Bing
- fidesomnes 5y agoyeah thats right, lick the boot right there, you missed a spot, yeah that's right.
- thinkingemote 5y agoThe real answer? Because these people are just like us, geeks, nerds, techies, early adopters. They are just the same people we live and work with. The film Enemy of the State (1998) was science fiction except with the parts where the techy operators were just normal nerds like us. That what was most scary part of the film not the (at the time fantastic) surveillance.
- einpoklum 5y agoThey are really quite unlike us. And our sets of norms is, shall we say, somewhat different to theirs.
- xyzal 5y agoYou imply hacking human minds to be more acceptable than hacking computers?
- jokethrowaway 5y agoAbsolutely. It's the human mind's responsibility not to be "hacked", by which I assume you mean exploited to e.g. mindlessly scroll Facebook all day. If most people are weak enough to become matrix-like slaves to the machine, so be it. I don't believe in free will and I don't think we need to preserve human life in a certain way (e.g. the way our ancestors lived). Sure, a lot of people will fail this test, or maybe they prefer to live their life like that. I don't care, that's on them, that's their choice - or, better, the way DNA and the environment shaped this human shell. If instead you wiretap my device, you're attacking my privacy and I don't have a way to defend myself. You are committing violence.
- maqp 5y agoIIRC the funny thing is, the system that provides the codenames is random in order for the system to not leak information about what the code name is for. But since there's no limit to how many times you can request a code name, the system is being abused and users try until they get a good one.
- zarmin 5y agoWhat was the codename for the project to create that system?
- Closi 5y agoProbably “Project Phoenix”. If you ask any project team to come up with a project name they will probably pick ‘Project Phoenix’.
- erhk 5y agoBecause all project work is reviving something that has been done before?
- jl6 5y agoBecause projects start in the smouldering ruins of as-is, and their business case is mythical (and if you want to rise in this environment you’d better be flame-retardant).
- wincy 5y agoNo dude because it’s a badass name. If it’s super cool you get to name it “Operation Dark Phoenix” which is even more badass.
- neuronic 5y agoNo, because all new projects are on fire from the get go.
- alasdair_ 5y ago
- spoonjim 5y agoCoppermouth is just a combination of two American venomous snakes: the copperhead and the cottonmouth.
- onionisafruit 5y agoNo. It’s a combination of duracell copper top batteries and smashmouth
- selcuka 5y agoCoppermouth is a typo, the actual name NSA gave it is Cottonmouth, a species of pit viper.