Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

Quotes of the week

Posted Oct 14, 2010 8:10 UTC (Thu) by pebolle (guest, #35204)
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> Rick Hohensee is back (thanks to Valerie Aurora)

That probably doesn't mean what a first reading suggests ...

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Posted Oct 14, 2010 11:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

Val found him on BitTorrent and gave him some space to execute again. (He's written in Forth, of course.)

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Posted Oct 14, 2010 17:33 UTC (Thu) by tdwebste (guest, #18154) [Link] (2 responses)

<quote>He's written in Forth, of course</quote>

You mean, his posting is written in Forth?

I definitely need to study the forth language so that I can correspond with him in Forth.

A good example of obfuscated writing. The extracting the functional purpose and the concealed message is a recreational challenge for readers.

Perhaps a really cool way to communicate secret messages.
Thus the subject title "HEY NSA" of this broadcast message. Perhaps the whole purpose of this broadcast message is to reliably share a cryptographic key.

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Posted Oct 14, 2010 21:16 UTC (Thu) by naptastic (guest, #60139) [Link] (1 responses)

I got almost halfway through his letter before giving up. I *thought* I was reading a letter from a hacker about his ideas for a new OS, but I'm not sure. Are we being punked? What's this about, really?

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Posted Oct 17, 2010 6:22 UTC (Sun) by CChittleborough (subscriber, #60775) [Link]

Googling Rick Hohensee indicates that he is a real person, though not completely well.