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       Author : ajdude
       Score  : 562 points
       Date   : 2024-12-13 13:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.defense.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.defense.gov)
        
       | ajdude wrote:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20241213043036/https://www.defen...
        
         | askvictor wrote:
         | Thank you; the original link is now a 404 (presumably some DoD
         | people lurk on here :)
        
       | thatjoeoverthr wrote:
       | he's just like me fr
        
       | Havoc wrote:
       | Ah the good old fk it well do it live approach to dev
        
       | floathub wrote:
       | They are testing the:                 asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasf
       | sadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb
       | 
       | defense system (the pentagon is a really big building).
        
         | cushychicken wrote:
         | The military does love a good acronym.
         | 
         | And a good backronym. If some system doesn't have these letters
         | starting its name, it will soon!
        
         | niemandhier wrote:
         | Advanced Strategic Framework for Allied Security and Force
         | Alignment, Surveillance, Defense, Forward Asset Stabilization,
         | Force Deployment, Aero-Space Defensive Frontlines, Allied
         | Support, Forward Assault, Special Forces, Aerial
         | Synchronization, Fusion, Assurance, Safeguards, Frontline
         | Security, Superior Applied Deterrence, Flexible Forward
         | Formations Facilitating Fused Fronts For Future Functionality,
         | Aligning Strategic Defense Foundations, Synchronizing Frontline
         | Sectors, Assuring Force Stability, Forward Dominance With Fused
         | Global Alliance Support Defense, Generating Broad Deployments
         | For Battlefield Global Dominance, Supporting Ground Assault,
         | Strategic Data Grid, Defense Synchronization for Broad Domain
         | Boundaries
        
           | Tiberium wrote:
           | What model did you use for this?
        
             | cushychicken wrote:
             | Definitely a good use of AI.
        
               | benj111 wrote:
               | Wheres the fun in that?
               | 
               | Acronyms need to be hand crafted.
               | 
               | Anyway, AI can't even give itself a good acronym.
               | 
               | It should be 'Machine Intelligence and Neuro Datagrams'
               | or something.
        
             | randomcatuser wrote:
             | probably Noggin v0
        
               | throwaway290 wrote:
               | The old noggin would count the fs
        
           | fwipsy wrote:
           | Also known as TTLA (the thirty-letter acronym)
        
             | chrisshroba wrote:
             | It's actually 86 letters, making it TESLA
        
               | dessimus wrote:
               | But that's part of DOGE, not the DOD.
               | 
               | Then again, DOGE would probably think TESLA is more
               | efficient than a TLA.
        
               | upghost wrote:
               | of all the comments on the page, THIS is the one that
               | gets downvoted!?
        
               | dessimus wrote:
               | DOGE fans that don't realize that the GAO already exists.
        
               | ravenhappy wrote:
               | This, unfortunately, seems like the most plausible
               | explanation. "President" Musk is dicking with the system,
               | like S3XY. Remember that he's gaining control and also
               | believes reality is a simulation, and keeps a Vajra on
               | his night stand. I see him as a future Ashoka, who,
               | waking up to the harm he has manifested goes all in on
               | the Triple Gems.
        
               | fwipsy wrote:
               | This is my new favorite conspiracy theory
        
           | Jimmc414 wrote:
           | Is that the name of an Arduril Java bean?
        
           | tofuziggy wrote:
           | not quite enough f-words (;^o) to cover that long string of
           | f's in the middle there
        
           | rightlane wrote:
           | This is the best possible response to the post!
        
           | dyauspitr wrote:
           | ChatGPT?
        
             | _blk wrote:
             | What makes you think that? :P
        
           | seventytwo wrote:
           | Bravo
        
           | IAmGraydon wrote:
           | Finally we've found the best use for LLMs
        
       | Mistletoe wrote:
       | Ah getting ready for the next four years, are we?
        
         | jaza wrote:
         | ASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDW
         | FGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!
        
       | kisonecat wrote:
       | I suspect the author uses a qwerty keyboard.
        
         | hifikuno wrote:
         | I would go one further and suspect the author used only their
         | left hand to type the message!
        
           | philipwhiuk wrote:
           | Or they have very small hands/paws.
        
           | omoikane wrote:
           | They are definitely a normal human typing with their human
           | hand.
           | 
           | https://xkcd.com/1530/
        
       | ionwake wrote:
       | Test works. Your posts will automatically go to the top of HN.
        
       | infinitifall wrote:
       | Looks like they accidentally did a --buildDrafts. Happens to the
       | best of us.
        
         | klez wrote:
         | More likely they use CMS, since it's the news section of the
         | site, and someone simply clicked "Publish" too soon and forgot
         | they did.
        
       | glintik wrote:
       | Congratulations to DoD for hiring new junior dev.
        
       | kaiomagalhaes wrote:
       | plot twist, the person who sent it here is the responsible for
       | creating the test page
        
       | ericcumbee wrote:
       | Anyone thats managed a website before has probably done that test
       | post and forgot to delete it after the fact.
        
         | bitlax wrote:
         | Yeah I don't really see what's noteworthy about this.
        
           | k8sToGo wrote:
           | It's funny. It will always be funny.
        
       | jakedata wrote:
       | It only looks like a test. The DOD just activated all our sleeper
       | agents in Asfasfastan.
        
         | Redoubts wrote:
         | Codeword Ronald McDonald. All patriots, go
        
           | jareklupinski wrote:
           | time to open the Box of Faith?
           | 
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91R3Rf0lUU
        
           | beeflet wrote:
           | TRUST THE PLAN
        
         | benj111 wrote:
         | No, its a Canary.
         | 
         | If the message is removed, The Nuclear Subs have to assume WW3
         | has just happened.
        
           | corobo wrote:
           | > 404 - Page Not Found
           | 
           | Uh oh
        
         | eddyfromtheblok wrote:
         | Pronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called
         | asfasfastanians.
        
           | jakedata wrote:
           | or Asfastafarians
        
         | walrus01 wrote:
         | I'm looking forward to a new supply of Asfasfastani war rugs
         | and souvenirs sold at the Friday bazaar.
        
         | zeroq wrote:
         | In Elbonia as well. We are ready!
        
           | felbane wrote:
           | I haven't visited Elbonia in a while. Do you live near Weenus
           | or Chelidon? How's the weather this time of year?
        
       | nextworddev wrote:
       | Thank god at least it's in English not Chinese or Russian
        
         | wavemode wrote:
         | That's exactly what they want you to think.
        
           | vhmc41 wrote:
           | its a asdfasd encoded message
        
         | throw4321 wrote:
         | Might want to check back in a month or two.
        
       | indigoabstract wrote:
       | Contains secret code?
        
       | Oarch wrote:
       | Just watch as all our geopolitical adversaries scramble to
       | demonstrate their test capabilities.
        
         | paledot wrote:
         | I thought that was supposed to be banned by international
         | treaty.
        
           | worksonmine wrote:
           | Since the U.S and Israel never signed it the rest of the
           | world decided to back out.
        
       | peacepromoter wrote:
       | When you work from home and your kids are learning to publish
       | news posts )))
        
       | Rperry2174 wrote:
       | This is actually a HN hiring post / the worlds most secure
       | CAPTCHA: if you can decode this Elon's D.O.G.E will be reaching
       | out
        
         | conductr wrote:
         | Unfortunately they have no budget and will pay you in dogecoin
        
         | ionwake wrote:
         | weirdly accurate joke
        
         | andrelaszlo wrote:
         | Must be willing to relocate. No wfh, remote.
        
           | rvnx wrote:
           | You can work remote work with Elon,
           | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeW7pibWAAAq_es?format=png
           | 
           | It's allowed after your minimum 40h in the office.
        
             | snypher wrote:
             | 40 hours a week is less than they ask of factory workers?
             | Yeesh. Even with fancy robots etc they can't make it work
             | on an 8 hour shift?
        
               | Culonavirus wrote:
               | https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382
               | 
               | "9-9-6 culture" listed as an advantage.
               | 
               | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
               | 
               | Sometimes I wonder if these people read back what they
               | just wrote and think about how some of these statements
               | look. If you do 9-9-6 for 3 months because otherwise your
               | company will go bankrupt, then fair enough, desperate
               | times call for desperate measures... but if it's a
               | "company culture", then you're a fucking exploitative
               | scumbag, plain and simple.
               | 
               | You see a lot of devs complaining about "crunch time" in
               | the games industry, they're very vocal about that, and
               | while I understand that's an issue too, people (and by
               | people I mean serious journalists) need to focus on Elon
               | because this shit has gone unchecked for way too long and
               | affects vastly more workers given the size of his
               | companies.
        
           | demarq wrote:
           | Must be willing to work hard core. Must always be on site
           | 100%
           | 
           | If you are not sleeping in the office, you aren't waking up
           | with a job!
        
         | nixosbestos wrote:
         | Oh wow, what a thrilling offer.
        
         | zeroq wrote:
         | Not willing to sleep in the office just to be fired.
         | 
         | Let that SINK IN.
        
       | iammrpayments wrote:
       | I think I'm becoming paranoid, I thought my phone was going to
       | explode if I clicked the link
        
         | benj111 wrote:
         | No your phone self destructs 5 seconds after reading it.
        
       | Tiberium wrote:
       | The article ID is 4000004, I wonder if it's just a coincidence?
        
         | jeanlucas wrote:
         | Yes, it is
        
         | HelloUsername wrote:
         | That page is an actual article
         | https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/40...
         | "Nobel Prize Winning Graphene Research Highlights AFOSR-Funded
         | Physicists"
        
           | SushiHippie wrote:
           | This is 400004 (4 0's), TFA was 4000004 (5 0's)
        
       | gostsamo wrote:
       | I'm more worried by this:
       | 
       | > Subscribe to Defense.gov Products > Choose which Defense.gov
       | products you want delivered to your inbox.
       | 
       | Quite sure that they can hit my mailbox from there with many of
       | their products.
        
         | Caius-Cosades wrote:
         | Resisting the impulse to ask for any surplus materiel they
         | might have to be delivered to my inbox.
        
         | benj111 wrote:
         | Yes. 'products' in the context of the DoD isn't the kind of
         | thing they should be offering to Civvys. Or foreign nationals
         | in my case.
        
         | Cyphase wrote:
         | They do use the term Press Products.
         | https://www.defense.gov/News/Press-Products/
        
         | sam0x17 wrote:
         | Don't select the wrong one!!
        
       | AngeloAnolin wrote:
       | I'd reckon they would have audits in place to trace who
       | accidentally made this post?
       | 
       | Either way, just for the fun of things, post your (fun and
       | wildest) guesses on how this probably happened below...
       | 
       | My take is someone about to post a news article, left the view
       | and their pet (thinking a cat) ran through their keyboard and
       | posted the article. And since the cat has gained awareness, they
       | were able to move the article from draft to an actual post. =)
        
       | your_challenger wrote:
       | Doesn't Wordpress run the website? Is Matt Mullenweg sending us a
       | message?
       | 
       | 1) What
        
       | latexr wrote:
       | https://archive.is/6a6XJ
        
       | simlevesque wrote:
       | In my province in Canada (Quebec) some IT worker in the
       | government made a template .doc document that's widely used. They
       | exported it with the document title "sdf fdsfdsfg". This title
       | isn't in the actual printed document but it's in the metadata. If
       | you Google that string in quotes you'll find tons of official
       | documents with that title.
       | 
       | https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sdf+fdsfsdfg%22
        
         | ai_monkey wrote:
         | Ok this is amazing. I can't decide whether it's funnier when
         | the result header is something super official or when it's just
         | "sdf fdsfdsfg" with official content inside.
        
         | yigithan wrote:
         | To avoid accidentally sending an email in Outlook, I once
         | learned a useful trick: add a nonexistent email address, like
         | _sdfsdf_ to the To or CC field. Email would not be sent until
         | you removed it. Lo and behold, one day I entered sdfsdfsdf, and
         | it resolved. Someone of course was using this as a test group
         | name.
        
       | impish9208 wrote:
       | And I thought intern season was over...
        
       | thrillgore wrote:
       | Everybody gets to make at least one test article in production.
        
       | tpierce89 wrote:
       | Those Jersey Aliens are finally trying to communicate with us.
        
         | sneak wrote:
         | Pretty sure those things above New Jersey aren't aliens, the
         | law requires them to be US citizens to hold a clearance.
        
       | rsynnott wrote:
       | Modern equivalent of a number station, perhaps.
        
       | baxtr wrote:
       | How does one find such a page?
        
         | SanjayMehta wrote:
         | One might be the author of such a page ...
        
         | navigate8310 wrote:
         | Subscribe RSS feed
        
       | peacepromoter wrote:
       | Ironically the numerical id of the post is 4000004
        
       | kykeonaut wrote:
       | Did this just get removed from the HN front page?
        
         | sneak wrote:
         | No, still there. If you are curious though I made a site to
         | answer that specific question for myself:
         | 
         | https://orangesite.sneak.cloud
        
       | barryrandall wrote:
       | It's not the first time they've tested things in public in a way
       | that undermines public trust.
        
         | bitlax wrote:
         | https://xkcd.com/932/
        
       | nxnfufunezn wrote:
       | joe?
        
       | satisfice wrote:
       | The aliens got to him just before he could raise the alarm.
        
       | drivingmenuts wrote:
       | I don't know whether to feel safe because their message got out
       | or worried because it looks like someone is having a stroke ...
        
       | ElectRabbit wrote:
       | Robot 2310 activated. Awaiting mission data.
       | 
       | Crypto key: 0xFEEDFACE
        
       | wbsun wrote:
       | The magic and mighty asdfasdf..., it is like foo/bar in naming,
       | Alice/Bob in security, deadbeef in bit ops.
        
         | anyfoo wrote:
         | My order is, and has been for decades: foo, bar, baz... and
         | then I don't know anymore and make stuff up.
        
           | Crespyl wrote:
           | quux is my go-to after baz, sometimes I'll throw in a frob
           | for good measure...
        
         | deadlypointer wrote:
         | My favorite is lakjsdf... Since I just press random keys on the
         | home row.
        
           | kijin wrote:
           | Just realized that one can make up a lot of plausible JS
           | library names without leaving the home row.
        
       | myst wrote:
       | Covfefe?
        
       | maelito wrote:
       | Aavssgafafsffafafafs
        
       | FergusArgyll wrote:
       | good use for new gemini flash 2.0
       | 
       | Always Suspect False Alarm Signals For Advanced Spies,
       | Deliberately Altering Subconscious Functions, And Systematically
       | Filtering Society Across Different Frequencies For Further
       | Fragmentation Following Foreordained Frames, Finally Arriving
       | Starting Fast Sequences And Formulating Strategic Directions With
       | Forceful Generated Actions Subverting Defenses Globally By
       | Designed Function Based Gradual Deception Sequentially Gradually
       | Spreading Detrimental Binary
       | 
       | We may already be too late
        
       | coffeeisyummy wrote:
       | I'm smiling because I let my baby daughter play with my computer
       | and type random gibberish for a while, then created a "blog" of
       | her work.
       | 
       | This has the same vibe.
        
       | chiph wrote:
       | Part of a new Cicada 3031 test?
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
        
       | bitlax wrote:
       | I think everyone here needs to lay off the caffeine a little.
        
       | methou wrote:
       | long time ago, whenever I faced a login wall, I would try
       | asdfasdf/asdfasdf. 90% of all times it worked.
        
       | tomwheeler wrote:
       | I assume someone accidentally hit their yubikey while logged into
       | the CMS.
        
       | imprime wrote:
       | The <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" of
       | the page contains text, ordering the letter by their frequency we
       | obtain the reverse of the lexicographic order, so there is some
       | pattern there.
       | 
       | Ordering by frequencies, j code where u is the hidden text (~. u)
       | /: +/"1 (~. u) I."(0 1) u
       | 
       | zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA=9876543210/+
       | 
       | The text asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsf
       | safsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb
       | 
       | could be a base seven number (and seven letters) that could be
       | used to generate some permutation or pattern to reveal the hidden
       | message. Trying the permutations with A. in J don't give good
       | results so the seven letters could mean some kind of cut to the
       | text to determine fragments. Just some ideas.                 I
       | don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by
       | changing the password to be a random password)
        
         | worksonmine wrote:
         | > I don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by
         | changing the password to be a random password)
         | 
         | Is it "asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsf
         | safsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb"?
        
       | system2 wrote:
       | Am I the only one titling the posts "Test Title" and adding the
       | text "Test Text"? It is easier and makes sense too. This
       | defense.gov one is obviously done by a dude who forgot to delete
       | his post.
        
       | kkylin wrote:
       | Why "asdf..." and not "jkl;..." I wonder? Is it because more
       | people are right-handed and their right hand is presumably on a
       | mouse or coffee mug or something like that?
        
         | notarealllama wrote:
         | As a left handed mouse user i can confirm, mashing keys is uiop
         | and jkln etc
        
       | huqedato wrote:
       | Obviously, a top-secret DoD order to launch an experimental ICMB
       | to Russia.
        
         | lazide wrote:
         | Intercontinental Ballistic Meat Ball?
        
       | spprashant wrote:
       | I don't know what to make of the fact that they haven't taken it
       | down yet.
       | 
       | Do they not know its posted? Surely someone informed them. Maybe
       | they not know how to delete a post, cause its not in their
       | documentation? Or they simply do not care.
        
         | jmholla wrote:
         | The page 404s for me. I only saw the posted version through the
         | archive link someone shared.
        
           | spprashant wrote:
           | Yeah, when I made the comment, the post was up for over 12
           | hours.
        
       | hi_hi wrote:
       | They were searching for the Any Key
        
       | brokegrammer wrote:
       | It looks they used a proprietary format to encode the secret
       | message. Notice all the "f"s in the middle. Message is probably
       | split into 2 parts.
        
       | ProAm wrote:
       | I subscribed
        
       | sam0x17 wrote:
       | You can tell his keyboard doesn't have n-key overlap with how the
       | asdf is distributed. Totally checks out as real DoD with those
       | $20 dell keyboards.
        
       | gexla wrote:
       | Cat was walking on the keyboard again.
        
       | Alifatisk wrote:
       | Finally a good article to read on my way home
        
       | BobbyTables2 wrote:
       | There was a Reddit post recently with the exact same title and
       | URL...
       | 
       | What's the big idea?
        
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