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Must be human nature. When I used an enigma machine at a museum, the first thing I did was try to make it light up with a 4 letter word. It does help that 4 let

Must be human nature. When I used an enigma machine at a museum, the first thing I did was try to make it light up with a 4 letter word. It does help that 4 letters of ciphertext is easier to remember :)

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
I can imagine some “adversarial gloves” (with regard to https://adversarialfashion.com/ https://adversarialfashion.com/) for VisionOS which allows someone who’s not wearing the goggles to have their hand gestures interpreted in various ways, including the ability to make an obscene gesture -- localized to the goggle-wearer’s location, of course -- at said goggle-wearer to be interpreted as the system-configured shutdown gesture. I’m inclined to agree with you that it must be (read: I hope it is) human nature, given my enjoyment of machine exploits. Makes me wonder about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470438 (“A brief history of insults”). (I know I’ll be likely to use my goggles-computer exclusively in private places.)
- pests 3y ago
  Did you post this on the wrong thread?
  - codetrotter 3y ago
    Maybe there will be an Enigma machine app for VisionOS
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
    I did not. I’d considered whether it was off-topic or not and concluded that it was not given the direction of discussion up to the point of my comment. We’re several comments deep after one tangent from “enigma machine exploits” to “obscenities with enigma machine exploits” and my tangent to “obscenities with hypothetical-but-not-yet-implemented machine exploits”. I can understand that it seems out of place, though I also disagree that it is out of place. (Really, the biggest reason I had against posting it was the knee-jerk reaction some people will have towards presumed Apple fanboys preempting any consideration that an idea could be relevant. It might be worth giving that a thought.)
lostlogin 3y ago
> When I used an enigma machine at a museum Did you use the one at Bletchley park too? I tried to go back to use it again but it had been stolen and the one they had was locked away behind glass. https://drenigma.org/2017/10/16/the-stolen-enigma-machine/ https://drenigma.org/2017/10/16/the-stolen-enigma-machine/
- Rebelgecko 3y ago
  I'd love to visit Bletchley Park some day, but no. It was at the (United States) National Cryptologic Museum. They actually had 2 enigma machines you could play with (IIRC different variants so messages on one weren't compatible with the other). That sucks that someone would steal it. Being able to go hands on with one is such a cool experience.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago

I can imagine some “adversarial gloves” (with regard to https://adversarialfashion.com/ https://adversarialfashion.com/) for VisionOS which allows someone who’s not wearing the goggles to have their hand gestures interpreted in various ways, including the ability to make an obscene gesture -- localized to the goggle-wearer’s location, of course -- at said goggle-wearer to be interpreted as the system-configured shutdown gesture. I’m inclined to agree with you that it must be (read: I hope it is) human nature, given my enjoyment of machine exploits. Makes me wonder about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470438 (“A brief history of insults”). (I know I’ll be likely to use my goggles-computer exclusively in private places.)

pests 3y ago
Did you post this on the wrong thread?
- codetrotter 3y ago
  Maybe there will be an Enigma machine app for VisionOS
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  I did not. I’d considered whether it was off-topic or not and concluded that it was not given the direction of discussion up to the point of my comment. We’re several comments deep after one tangent from “enigma machine exploits” to “obscenities with enigma machine exploits” and my tangent to “obscenities with hypothetical-but-not-yet-implemented machine exploits”. I can understand that it seems out of place, though I also disagree that it is out of place. (Really, the biggest reason I had against posting it was the knee-jerk reaction some people will have towards presumed Apple fanboys preempting any consideration that an idea could be relevant. It might be worth giving that a thought.)

lostlogin 3y ago

> When I used an enigma machine at a museum Did you use the one at Bletchley park too? I tried to go back to use it again but it had been stolen and the one they had was locked away behind glass. https://drenigma.org/2017/10/16/the-stolen-enigma-machine/ https://drenigma.org/2017/10/16/the-stolen-enigma-machine/

Rebelgecko 3y ago
I'd love to visit Bletchley Park some day, but no. It was at the (United States) National Cryptologic Museum. They actually had 2 enigma machines you could play with (IIRC different variants so messages on one weren't compatible with the other). That sucks that someone would steal it. Being able to go hands on with one is such a cool experience.