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[RT][HF] The Maker's Ark, Chapter 14
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Author: u/DocFuture *
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URL: http://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/132951817606/the-makers-ark-chapter-14
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Score: 10
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Created: 2015-11-10T20:12:58
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u/DocFuture [+2] *
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] *
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] *
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] *
Cute. Cute, and extremely obscure. I don't feel bad at all about missing that one.
u/DocFuture [+1] *
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] *
Hm. Chuck Shiner...putting steak on a black eye?
u/DocFuture [+1] *
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*
Typos: I’d like to take a closer look [at] the UPPfone infrastructure
u/DocFuture [+1] *
Fixed, thanks.