[_b8r0]

This is really really good. For my sins a few years back I made a similar profile on linkedin[1] but made it as obviously fake as possible while still pretending to be real, it's an open secret in the UK infosec industry and still gets emails from recruiters.

Incidentally the profile is entirely populated with content generated via Markov chains using logs from an irc channel I'm on as the corpus.

[1] - uk.linkedin.com/pub/markov-bambam/15/643/a56

[Kronopath]

I want to read his dissertation.

"Dissertation on dissassociative media reconstruction in information security: How hedgehogs and baby seals lead to infinite cybercrime opportunity (Russian)."

[nl]

His other well known paper (Decoupling IPv7 from Replication in Link-Level Acknowledgements) is available from MIT[1]

[1] http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/867/scimakelatex.58686...

[jonmrodriguez]

Haha, figure 1 is just awesome.

[nl]

I liked "we deployed 00 Commodore 64s across the 10-node network, and tested our kernels accordingly"

[_b8r0]

For some reason Markov would score 'Seals' extremely high next to 'Baby'. The more it would pop up, the more people would put 'Baby Seals' into the IRC channel and it became a common signing off phrase.

Baby Seals, Steve

[nuclear_eclipse]

I don't know what any of that means, but I know it sounds like the best dissertation ever.

[chris_wot]

Could happen.

[strlen]

Brilliance:

"Activities and Societies: NKVD"

[arethuza]

That will explain the unorthodox, but very effective, interviewing style then? ;-)

[cdr]

Please say it replied via markov chain.

[_b8r0]

Early on (this has been going on for years), I used to use the algorithm to generate replies. The problem is that most of what Markov creates is no good (he started as a bot on an IRC channel as someone quit IRC, so while not a replacement he was there as a substitute) but occasionally comes out with brilliant content. Sifting through that for content that almost makes sense to a recruiter is hard. The phone number used to be a real number too. If you called it you were played Rick Astley's never gonna give you up interspersed with a voice saying things like, "Connecting you to your extension","Please hold while we connect you","The person you are trying to reach is not here, redirecting to mobile" etc. and on loop every few minutes. Someone once connected for a good 15 minutes and about 3-4 full iterations of Never Gonna Give You Up.

The UK Infosec recruitment industry is a ghetto (to paraphrase Zed Shaw) and I never targeted recruiters, only occasionally responding to those that targeted Markov.

[dpeck]

That is fantastic. Hat tip to you sir.