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These codenames are great for speculating... FOXTRAIL, TREASUREMAP, WhichHunt, HOBGOBLIN, GLOBALVIEW
by 8ig8 13y ago
These codenames are great for speculating... FOXTRAIL, TREASUREMAP, WhichHunt, HOBGOBLIN, GLOBALVIEW
- aet 13y agoTreasure map- you can only imagine the possibilities here..
- caf 13y agoIn theory, codenames are supposed to be random words that are in no way suggestive of the thing that they name. That ideal isn't always upheld, of course - the lure of a cute name can be too strong. (For example it is suspected that FOGBANK, which is a codeword for a material used in the construction of nuclear physics packages, refers to a silica aerogel)
- teeja 13y agoYeah, but names like Treadmill and BlackBriar just sound so cool though. At least they stopped using "Project" and "Operation" prefixes when they got tired.
- Wingman4l7 13y agoReminds me of how Bletchley Park broke some of the Enigma ciphers. The operators were supposed to abide by certain rules when making the 3-letter "keys" -- but they inevitably picked letters next to each other on the keyboard, used the same letters repeatedly ("AAA"), used the same key "pairs", used words, names, etc.
- sneak 13y agoSome rather old perl I wrote to address this problem when naming things internally: https://github.com/sneak/Generate-Codename/blob/master/lib/Generate/Codename.pm https://github.com/sneak/Generate-Codename/blob/master/lib/G...