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https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4000004/test/

by ajdude • 2 years ago

608 145 2 years ago

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ajdude• 2 years ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20241213043036/https://www.defen...

askvictor• 2 years ago

Thank you; the original link is now a 404 (presumably some DoD people lurk on here :)

thatjoeoverthr• 2 years ago

he's just like me fr

Havoc• 2 years ago

Ah the good old fk it well do it live approach to dev

floathub• 2 years ago

They are testing the:

  asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb

defense system (the pentagon is a really big building).

cushychicken2• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

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

Tiberium2• 2 years ago

What model did you use for this?

fwipsy2• 2 years ago

Also known as TTLA (the thirty-letter acronym)

Jimmc414• 2 years ago

Is that the name of an Arduril Java bean?

tofuziggy• 2 years ago

not quite enough f-words (;^o) to cover that long string of f's in the middle there

rightlane• 2 years ago

This is the best possible response to the post!

dyauspitr• 2 years ago

ChatGPT?

seventytwo• 2 years ago

Bravo

IAmGraydon• 2 years ago

Finally we’ve found the best use for LLMs

Mistletoe• 2 years ago

Ah getting ready for the next four years, are we?

jaza• 2 years ago

ASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDWFGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!

kisonecat• 2 years ago

I suspect the author uses a qwerty keyboard.

hifikuno• 2 years ago

I would go one further and suspect the author used only their left hand to type the message!

philipwhiuk• 2 years ago

Or they have very small hands/paws.

omoikane• 2 years ago

They are definitely a normal human typing with their human hand.

https://xkcd.com/1530/

ionwake2• 2 years ago

Test works. Your posts will automatically go to the top of HN.

infinitifall• 2 years ago

Looks like they accidentally did a --buildDrafts. Happens to the best of us.

klez• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Congratulations to DoD for hiring new junior dev.

kaiomagalhaes• 2 years ago

plot twist, the person who sent it here is the responsible for creating the test page

ericcumbee• 2 years ago

Anyone thats managed a website before has probably done that test post and forgot to delete it after the fact.

bitlax3• 2 years ago

Yeah I don't really see what's noteworthy about this.

k8sToGo• 2 years ago

It's funny. It will always be funny.

jakedata2• 2 years ago

It only looks like a test. The DOD just activated all our sleeper agents in Asfasfastan.

Redoubts• 2 years ago

Codeword Ronald McDonald. All patriots, go

jareklupinski• 2 years ago

time to open the Box of Faith?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91R3Rf0lUU

beeflet• 2 years ago

TRUST THE PLAN

benj1114• 2 years ago

No, its a Canary.

If the message is removed, The Nuclear Subs have to assume WW3 has just happened.

corobo• 2 years ago

404 - Page Not Found

Uh oh

eddyfromtheblok• 2 years ago

Pronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called asfasfastanians.

jakedata2• 2 years ago

or Asfastafarians

walrus01• 2 years ago

I'm looking forward to a new supply of Asfasfastani war rugs and souvenirs sold at the Friday bazaar.

zeroq2• 2 years ago

In Elbonia as well. We are ready!

felbane• 2 years ago

I haven't visited Elbonia in a while. Do you live near Weenus or Chelidon? How's the weather this time of year?

nextworddev• 2 years ago

Thank god at least it’s in English not Chinese or Russian

wavemode• 2 years ago

That's exactly what they want you to think.

vhmc41• 2 years ago

its a asdfasd encoded message

throw4321• 2 years ago

Might want to check back in a month or two.

indigoabstract• 2 years ago

Contains secret code?

Oarch• 2 years ago

Just watch as all our geopolitical adversaries scramble to demonstrate their test capabilities.

paledot• 2 years ago

I thought that was supposed to be banned by international treaty.

worksonmine2• 2 years ago

Since the U.S and Israel never signed it the rest of the world decided to back out.

peacepromoter2• 2 years ago

When you work from home and your kids are learning to publish news posts )))

Rperry2174• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Unfortunately they have no budget and will pay you in dogecoin

ionwake2• 2 years ago

weirdly accurate joke

andrelaszlo• 2 years ago

Must be willing to relocate. No wfh, remote.

rvnx• 2 years ago

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.

demarq• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Oh wow, what a thrilling offer.

zeroq2• 2 years ago

Not willing to sleep in the office just to be fired.

Let that SINK IN.

iammrpayments• 2 years ago

I think I’m becoming paranoid, I thought my phone was going to explode if I clicked the link

benj1114• 2 years ago

No your phone self destructs 5 seconds after reading it.

Tiberium2• 2 years ago

The article ID is 4000004, I wonder if it's just a coincidence?

jeanlucas• 2 years ago

Yes, it is

HelloUsername• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

This is 400004 (4 0's), TFA was 4000004 (5 0's)

gostsamo• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Resisting the impulse to ask for any surplus materiel they might have to be delivered to my inbox.

benj1114• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

They do use the term Press Products. https://www.defense.gov/News/Press-Products/

sam0x172• 2 years ago

Don't select the wrong one!!

account42• 2 years ago

It's probably goint to be fine unless you demand express delivery.

AngeloAnolin• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Doesn't Wordpress run the website? Is Matt Mullenweg sending us a message?

1) What

latexr• 2 years ago

https://archive.is/6a6XJ

simlevesque• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

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.

yigithan2• 2 years ago

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.

zaik• 2 years ago

Why not simply leave To and CC empty until it's ready to send?

impish9208• 2 years ago

And I thought intern season was over…

thrillgore• 2 years ago

Everybody gets to make at least one test article in production.

tpierce89• 2 years ago

Those Jersey Aliens are finally trying to communicate with us.

sneak2• 2 years ago

Pretty sure those things above New Jersey aren’t aliens, the law requires them to be US citizens to hold a clearance.

rsynnott• 2 years ago

Modern equivalent of a number station, perhaps.

baxtr• 2 years ago

How does one find such a page?

SanjayMehta• 2 years ago

One might be the author of such a page …

navigate8310• 2 years ago

Subscribe RSS feed

peacepromoter2• 2 years ago

Ironically the numerical id of the post is 4000004

kykeonaut• 2 years ago

Did this just get removed from the HN front page?

sneak2• 2 years ago

No, still there. If you are curious though I made a site to answer that specific question for myself:

https://orangesite.sneak.cloud

barryrandall• 2 years ago

It's not the first time they've tested things in public in a way that undermines public trust.

bitlax3• 2 years ago

https://xkcd.com/932/

nxnfufunezn• 2 years ago

joe?

satisfice• 2 years ago

The aliens got to him just before he could raise the alarm.

drivingmenuts• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Robot 2310 activated. Awaiting mission data.

Crypto key: 0xFEEDFACE

wbsun• 2 years ago

The magic and mighty asdfasdf..., it is like foo/bar in naming, Alice/Bob in security, deadbeef in bit ops.

anyfoo• 2 years ago

My order is, and has been for decades: foo, bar, baz... and then I don't know anymore and make stuff up.

Crespyl• 2 years ago

quux is my go-to after baz, sometimes I'll throw in a frob for good measure...

deadlypointer• 2 years ago

My favorite is lakjsdf... Since I just press random keys on the home row.

kijin• 2 years ago

Just realized that one can make up a lot of plausible JS library names without leaving the home row.

myst• 2 years ago

Covfefe?

maelito• 2 years ago

Aavssgafafsffafafafs

FergusArgyll• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Part of a new Cicada 3031 test?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

bitlax3• 2 years ago

I think everyone here needs to lay off the caffeine a little.

methou• 2 years ago

long time ago, whenever I faced a login wall, I would try asdfasdf/asdfasdf. 90% of all times it worked.

tomwheeler• 2 years ago

I assume someone accidentally hit their yubikey while logged into the CMS.

imprime• 2 years ago

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 asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb

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)

worksonmine2• 2 years ago

I don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by changing the password to be a random password)

Is it "asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb"?

system2• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

As a left handed mouse user i can confirm, mashing keys is uiop and jklñ etc

xeonmc• 2 years ago

no love for QWOP

huqedato• 2 years ago

Obviously, a top-secret DoD order to launch an experimental ICMB to Russia.

lazide• 2 years ago

Intercontinental Ballistic Meat Ball?

spprashant2• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

The page 404s for me. I only saw the posted version through the archive link someone shared.

spprashant2• 2 years ago

Yeah, when I made the comment, the post was up for over 12 hours.

hi_hi• 2 years ago

They were searching for the Any Key

brokegrammer• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

I subscribed

sam0x172• 2 years ago

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• 2 years ago

Cat was walking on the keyboard again.

Alifatisk• 2 years ago

Finally a good article to read on my way home

BobbyTables2• 2 years ago

There was a Reddit post recently with the exact same title and URL…

What’s the big idea?

maxpage• 2 years ago

Everyone loves testing on production

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