The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
The fictional article <a href="https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/" rel="nofollow">https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/</a> is one the best written computer science/cryptography SCP like articles I've ever read.<p>What I loved is that:<p>$ echo -en 'basilisk:0000000000:ds26ovbJzDwkVWia1tINLJZ2WXEHBvItMZRxHmYhlQd0spuvPXb6cYFJorDKkqlA' | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl dgst -sha256
(stdin)= 0000000000000000000000161b9f84a187cc21b172bf68b3cb3b78684d8e9f17<p>actually works, but is a little sneaky. See <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/190463/so-who-is-there-left-to-trust" rel="nofollow">https://www.metafilter.com/190463/so-who-is-there-left-to-tr...</a><p>Edit2: <a href="https://github.com/blackle/Basilisk-Hunter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/blackle/Basilisk-Hunter</a> How the examples were generated.