Encrypted Name At The Coffee Shop

Description

A black-and-white cartoon shows a barista at a coffee counter calling out, "Triple Venti half-sweet non-fat caramel macchiato for 083d9a270-e6e16b2fbb008d-35067aae5f." A customer holding a drink explains to another person, "I always ENCRYPT my name in public places just to be safe." The visible identifier looks hash- or UUID-like rather than like a normal name, making the privacy precaution absurdly impractical. The technical humor comes from conflating encryption, hashing, and public anonymity while creating a worse human interface than the original problem.

Common Tags

Encryption DataPrivacy PrivacyConcerns CryptographicHashFunction DataAnonymization DataMasking DigitalIdentity SecurityTheater LiteralInterpretation TechnicalAbsurdity

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick He did not protect his identity so much as move the PII risk into the barista's pronunciation queue.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

He did not protect his identity so much as move the PII risk into the barista's pronunciation queue.
@f3rr0us 5y

This is actually a UUID v1 with misplaced hyphens, not an encryption product. Also, if we can assume that his node ID (6 bytes) is his name in ASCII, then his name should be 6 letters long, and not Dave. Just thinking.
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  That’s md5 hash of Dave, man
  
  @serghei_k 5y
  
  Actually no $ echo Dave | md5sum 12d3a1c72c28845a163703171f7f4ac1 -
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  echo -n
  
  @serghei_k 5y
  
  Aha
@f3rr0us 5y

Got it, linebreaks :)
@serghei_k 5y

And md5 isn't encryption it's hashing
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  That's the joke
2. dev_meme 5y
  
  JFYI hashing COULD be a form of encryption
@o6m0o9m 5y

@serghei_k you just done it wrong
@o6m0o9m 5y

083d9a270e6e16b2fbb08d35067aae5f, you can try rainbow table attack on it
Deleted Account 5y

Is it md5?
@lord_nani 5y

damn
@lord_nani 5y

thats cringe
@serghei_k 5y

Yeah, I already saw