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Comment I saw on Ars: >Interestingly enough, "Jia Tan" is very close to 加蛋 in Mandarin, meaning "to add an egg". Unlikely to be a real name or a coincidence.
by cgh 3y ago
Comment I saw on Ars:
>Interestingly enough, "Jia Tan" is very close to 加蛋 in Mandarin, meaning "to add an egg". Unlikely to be a real name or a coincidence.
- picture 3y agoJia Tan could mean literally anything as pinyin since it doesn't have diacritics for tone. 嘉坛 (Jiā tán) could be a totally plausible name, and so could 佳檀 (also Jiā tán). Chinese names can largely use any character that doesn't come with a really bad meaning
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoYeah a quick Google brings up lots of real Jia Tans who clearly aren't behind this and hopefully aren't being wrongly accused here. But it is clearly a real and common name.
- shp0ngle 3y agoAs other poster said, Chinese has diacritics that got usually removed when put into English websites
- shp0ngle 3y agoThere are many real Jia Tans on LinkedIn
- xign 3y agoJia Tan is absolute a possible real name. Most people commenting on this topic aren't even Chinese native speakers lol. Each pinyin can map to a lot of different Chinese characters because they are missing the tone of the character anyway. Tan is a real Chinese surname, and could be mandarin or hokkien. Either way the name is likely made up. Obviously the attacker wasn't going to just use their real names.