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I may be willing to believe the NSA are misguided, but nobody uses the bad guys' name for themselves on purpose. The NSA used Minitruth as the name of their bac
by jamesaguilar 13y ago
I may be willing to believe the NSA are misguided, but nobody uses the bad guys' name for themselves on purpose. The NSA used Minitruth as the name of their backdoor? Gimme a break.
- EthanHeilman 13y agoThis isn't a rumor or some strange conspiracy this is just how crypto-export controls were done for a short while in the US. http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2898/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2898/1.html http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1 >but nobody uses the bad guys' name for themselves on purpose. Why not, I've heard of software teams naming themselves Cobra from GI Joe.
- ianterrell 13y agoI'd rather not be spied on at all, but if someone's reading my emails I sure hope they have a sense of humor.
- thesagan 13y agoI don't know, The darker side of me gets a kick out of it, really. It's interesting language to say the least.
- gcb0 13y agoThis is a joke on the implementation. I bet only the lotus devs ever read those names before.
- cbs 13y agoI assumed it was the work of the programmer tasked with installing the key for the NSA, not some self-deprecating humor.
- Havoc 13y ago>The NSA used Minitruth as the name of their backdoor? Gimme a break. More like the guy charged with implementing it had a sense of hunour / clear perspective.
- stan_rogers 13y agoThe folks at the Iris group were very much like that. Around the same period, the project that would become Lotus Quickplace and the iNotes web client was codenamed "Shimmer", after an old Saturday Night Live fake ad for a do-everything product that was both "a floor wax and a dessert topping".
- pa7ch 13y agoYou must not be familiar with 'palantir'. A seeing stone used for spying, communication, and manipulation by Sauron and Saruman in LOTR.