ZARF
Air Force/MITRE tiger team project that cracked Multics
security. "Zarf" is Turkish for a
coffee cup, applied by the Air Force to those white
disposable cups that fit into a brown
holder with a handle, which they called a finjan, also the
appropriate Turkish term. They
picked this project name to be as obscure as possible.
{Story: How the Air Force Cracked
Multics Security}
Perhaps time to switch to decaffeinated?
> Lou,
> surely Zarf *does* have a meaning,
> viz something like :
> Zarf: a codeword used by US National Security Agency to reference specific
> classified information; the term Zarf is UNCLASSIFIED, even though
> Information protected by the Zarf codeword will continue to require
> protection.
>
> is this really very different from, say:
>
> BNC: a codeword used by the international Corpus Linguistics community to
> refer to a specific dataset; the term BNC is widely-used, even though
> only a small cognoscenti have detailed knowledge of the contents and
> structure of the dataset.
>
> Eric (well,it's somthing to waste my lunchbreak on...)
>
>
> Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, SOCRATES Coordinator,
> and Director, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS)
> School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
> EMAIL: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761 FAX: (44)113-2335468
> WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html
>
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