Is Lorem Ipsum a code hiding in plain sight [OT}
Waaay OT but too strange and wonderful not to share. I am certain that there are many here who will be fascinated by this. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/lorem-ipsum-of-good-evil-google-china/ Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Is Lorem Ipsum a code hiding in plain sight [OT}
Latin occupies a peculiar position. Microsoft Word does not, for example, recognize its existence. One cannot, that is, specify that a document or a quotation in a document is written in latin. Terabytes of latin text are, however, readily available on the net; and bilingual text has been plentiful for generations. Examples are the Loeb Classical Library, which contains the latin text and English translations of it for most classical authors, the Budé collection, which instead contains latin text and French translations, etc., etc. Google could improve its translations of Latin text readily if it wished or, perhaps better, judged that it needed to do so. The largerv q On 8/18/14, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Waaay OT but too strange and wonderful not to share. I am certain that there are many here who will be fascinated by this. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/lorem-ipsum-of-good-evil-google-china/ Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Is Lorem Ipsum a code hiding in plain sight [OT}
On 8/18/2014 1:40 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Waaay OT but too strange and wonderful not to share. I am certain that there are many here who will be fascinated by this. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/lorem-ipsum-of-good-evil-google-china/ Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN That _is_ interesting. Thanks. -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Is Lorem Ipsum a code hiding in plain sight [OT}
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:40:52 +0200, Charles Mills wrote: Waaay OT but too strange and wonderful not to share. I am certain that there are many here who will be fascinated by this. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/lorem-ipsum-of-good-evil-google-china/ Where I read: “Translate [is] designed to be able to evolve and to learn from crowd-sourced input to reflect adaptations in language use over time,” Kraeh3n said. “Someone out there learned to game that ability and use an obscure piece of text no one in their right mind would ever type in to create totally random alternate meanings that could, potentially, be used to transmit messages covertly.” I'll conjecture, perhaps more plausibly, that lorem ipsum is often used as replacement text for redacted sensitive matter, leading Google's Rosetta Stone program to make suggestive guesses. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
