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Monkeycalandar? Candygram? The names are ridiculous. It's like the whole place is staffed by 12 year olds who loved the "Spy Kids" movies.
by noonespecial 13y ago
Monkeycalandar? Candygram? The names are ridiculous. It's like the whole place is staffed by 12 year olds who loved the "Spy Kids" movies.
- Luc 13y agoComputer generated, of course. Though I have no doubt a person has the final say, screwing with the otherwise perfect randomness. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams#X-Ger.C3.A4t https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams#X-Ger.C3.A... "Jones had already concluded the Germans used code names which were too descriptive. He asked a specialist in the German language and literature at Bletchley Park about the word Wotan. The specialist realised Wotan referred to Wōden and might therefore be a single beam navigation system."
- slashdotaccount 13y agoNSA Codenames: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm
- lectrick 13y agoThey're probably generated from random numbers so that they reveal no information about what they are naming. Look up "PGP word list", for example.