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phantom-0.0.1-alpha TAO exploit (Re: Appeal of Ban Appeal: “hacker1001101001”)
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nullius
on 26/04/2020, 14:44:40 UTC
Did anybody discover the real identity of bonesjonesreturns ?

Judging by the clownish comments & verbal diarrhea, I think it's an alt of D Trump......

Just don’t tell him about my Persian friend, lest he try to murder me with a drone strike.  Perhaps he may even threaten to bomb the Paris Opera as an Iranian cultural site.  Per his usual knowledge of both culture and geography, that’s close enough, right?

I had better finish coding my new anonymization technology, which is so much more elegant than that Guy Fawkes mask with its expression of perpetual constipation.  My mask even comes with roses!  I love roses.


Found on the Internet, attributed to “stephantom53”.

Unluckily, phantom-0.0.1-alpha has an exploitable security bug:

SPOILER: Christine is an NSA TAO implant.

Watch arXiv* for my forthcoming paper, “Deanonymization Attacks by Soprano Honeypots”.  Meanwhile, the security bug herself is delightfully exploitable.


* arXiv, formerly known as xxx.lanl.gov (LOL), is so spelt with at least a visually sensible substitute for the Greek letter χ.  Whereas the abbreviation “TPOTO” is, of course, as nonsensical as would be abbreviating philosophiae doctor as “P.D.” instead of “Ph.D.”  The proper abbreviation would be “TPhOTO”, which even has a special glow to it.

Fans of popular culture disappoint their idol.  Surely, the ingenious Phantom himself knows how properly to abbreviate a Latin digraph for Greek Φ!

Not that I would expect any better from the same fool whose very name mutilates the Latin digraph representing X/χ (chi) from τέχνη.  Spelling “tech” as “tec” is as stupid as would be, mutatis mutandis, abbreviating “philosophiae doctor” as “P.D.” instead of “Ph.D.”, thus breaking the digraph for Greek Φ/φ (phi).  Cf. [confer, ‘compare’] Ψ/ψ (psi), as seen in English pseudonym (< ψευδώνυμoς).

* nullius condemns and contemns the award of so-called “Ph.D.” degrees to anybody who cannot spell philosophiae doctor without looking it up in a dictionary—or who cannot readily explain the origins and meaning of the term.

Ceterum censeo...