## [RT][HF] The Maker's Ark, Chapter 14

* Author: u/DocFuture *
* URL: http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/132951817606/the-makers-ark-chapter-14
* Score: 10

* Created: 2015-11-10T20:12:58

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### Comments:

> **u/DocFuture** [+2]  (2 minutes later)
> 
> The end of Journeyman's story--he didn't get closure, which is part of what made him who he is.  And the start of a new thread.
> 
> We'll see if anyone gets the in-joke about the security researcher's name. 8-)

>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2]  (3 hours later)
>> 
>> Bruce Schneier would like to talk to you.  :>
>> 
>> I like this one -- you're good at 'emotional' and the bit at the end makes a nice chaser and mood shift.

>>> **u/DocFuture** [+2]  (2 days later)
>>> 
>>> When Schneier first started becoming well known, there was a meme for making cryptography jokes about him in the style of Chuck Norris jokes, so I used that for the name of the character based on him.
>>> 
>>> A good example from the Disqus comments on the chapter:
>>> 
>>> "Chuck Shiner doesn't know the meaning of the word ciphertext, because to him, everything is plaintext."

>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2]  (2 days later)
>>>> 
>>>> Cute.  Cute, and extremely obscure.  I don't feel bad at all about missing that one.

>>> **u/DocFuture** [+1]  (3 hours later)
>>> 
>>> Thanks.  And I actually did talk to Bruce Schneier once, at a book signing with Neal Stephenson for Cryptonomicon, back in the 20th century 8-).  He autographed the appendix of my copy.
>>> 
>>> But the in-joke is something else about the name 8-)

>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+1]  (3 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> Hm.  Chuck Shiner...putting steak on a black eye?

>>>>> **u/DocFuture** [+1]  (12 hours later)
>>>>> 
>>>>> No, but I want to give everyone a few more days to guess before I reveal it.  It's just a little Easter egg for those that make the Schneier connection.

> **u/SvalbardCaretaker** [+1]  *Mouse Army* (an hour later)
> 
> Typos: 
> 
>  I’d like to take a closer look [at] the UPPfone infrastructure

>> **u/DocFuture** [+1]  (2 hours later)
>> 
>> Fixed, thanks.

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