Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction)

Re:Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction) by aasarava on Saturday June 15, 2013 @11:55PM (#5887405)

Also, O'Brien is the agent in 1984.

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Re:Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction) by auxbuss on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:20AM (#5888022)

And Bloom is the protagonist of Ulysses.

It's also Bloomsday today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday

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Re:Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction) by anthuswilliams on Sunday June 16, 2013 @03:10PM (#5889500)

I have not read Ulysses, so the story had me thinking about Bloom filters, data structures for which the likelihood of false positives increase as the dataset grows larger. I guess there is a certain kind of poetry in the coincidence.

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Re:Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction) by Houshalter on Sunday June 16, 2013 @01:24AM (#5887550)

Ya I was thinking about the scary irony of being interviewed by a man named O'Brien. But since I assumed it was real, I thought it was just a coincidence. And in hindsight, a lot of details of the story don't make sense, but that it could be fiction just didn't cross my mind.

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Re:Cryptogams and the NSA (fiction) by Filligree on Sunday June 16, 2013 @08:39AM (#5888254)

"I learned about PRISM two years ago". ;-)

Now, if you read that in 2015, you might have a case.

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