allonymist ([info]allonymist) wrote,
@ 2007-11-18 23:27:00
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Entry tags:crypto, humor

Ancient History, part 1.
Tonight I cleaned the hall closet and found some old scratch notebooks.  Mostly, they're all old shopping lists and bad poetry, but there are some good parts.  I'll be posting the more amusing bits as I go through them.

Today: The Bathing Suit Example  (c. 2003)

Public Policy: "Don't look at me while I'm putting on my bathing suit, or you're in trouble."
Computer Security: Build a giant impenetrable sand castle to change in so nobody sees you naked.
Cryptography: Put the bathing suit on under your clothes, then remove your clothes.
Theoretical crypto: Wear all your clothes at once, and remove layers as appropriate.
Trusted computing: Wear special pants that can only be removed if everybody present is wearing sunglasses that go dark if anybody with the special pants removes them.  As a side effect, you can never see yourself naked.
Steganography: Wear camouflage body paints under your clothes.
Watermarking: Put a different temporary tattoo on your ass every morning, so you can tell who's talking about your butt.
Cryptography II: Grow lots of body hair.
P2P: Have a million friends to strip at the same time, so nobody will notice you.



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[info]enochsmiles
2007-11-19 09:26 am UTC (link)
You're the reason I can't quit LiveJournal.

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[info]allonymist
2007-11-19 09:16 pm UTC (link)
The weight of responsibility rests heavy on my shoulders.

What should the anonymity entry be?

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[info]jessiehl
2007-11-19 01:55 pm UTC (link)
Ha. Wow.

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[info]allonymist
2007-11-19 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!

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[info]photonsrain
2007-11-19 05:35 pm UTC (link)
Brilliance.

Want to turn the Office of Personnel Management's "Issue Characterization Chart", also known as the federal employment "Suitability Matrix":
http://hspd12jpl.org/files/Suitability_Matrix.pdf
into a purity test?

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[info]goddess32585
2007-11-19 06:12 pm UTC (link)
suitable for...being a federal employee? waugh.

(oh my, I love the way 'possession of an unregistered firearm' is the same level of fault as 'bad cheque'. also the way 'homosexuality, while not in and of itself a suitability issue, may be a security issue...')

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[info]photonsrain
2007-11-19 06:16 pm UTC (link)
The JPL employees, as you could expect, are up in arms about this. Some were wearing little rose stickers over "JPL" on their conference badges and explained that they'd rather let people know that they worked at a whorehouse than at a government lab if this is how they're going to be treated.

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[info]goddess32585
2007-11-19 06:26 pm UTC (link)
wait, this is new? or are they just now applying it to more places? (m first thought was 'no way does this apply to all gov't contractors ever, no one would ever get grants if these were the standards!')

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[info]photonsrain
2007-11-19 06:29 pm UTC (link)
It's pretty recent, at least at certain labs.

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[info]allonymist
2007-11-19 09:13 pm UTC (link)
I'll help turn this into a purity test iff you can find a few JPL employees who are willing to wear their scores on their lapels in protest against the policy.

("If you die on the suitability matrix, you die in real life!")

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[info]photonsrain
2007-11-19 09:40 pm UTC (link)
The one who showed me this is a pika alum. I'm sure he'd be willing to comply :P

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[info]allonymist
2007-11-19 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Okay. Let's do this madness. IM me.

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[info]enochsmiles
2007-11-25 06:56 am UTC (link)
See? You. I blame you.

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[info]goddess32585
2007-11-19 06:13 pm UTC (link)
re: P2P, are you saying my problem is that I *don't* have a million 'friends'?

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[info]allonymist
2007-11-19 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Honestly, I don't know what I was thinking wrt P2P. I transcribed from my 2003 notes pretty faithfully, and I still don't get what I was saying there.

It could be worse. For "Anonymity", I wrote the words: "Anonymity: Group arrives at beach in" and then crossed them out. I have no idea what I meant to say.

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[info]enochsmiles
2007-11-25 06:57 am UTC (link)
I have no idea what I meant to say.

Anonymity seems to do that to anyone who writes about it and then reads what they wrote a few years later.

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