[Cryptography] Spreadsheet harder

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Wed Feb 12 10:37:43 EST 2025


Recent events in the UK inspired this fever dream:

Spreadsheet Harder

In response to ongoing concerns about the nation's budget deficit, the
Treasury department has issued a directive that when calculating
deficits, the sum of 2 and 2 will now be 3.

Technical experts in the accounting industry claimed that the results
of addition are set by the laws of mathematics and can't be changed.
The Treasury pushed back strongly. ...

https://jl.ly/Security/harder.html

R's,
John


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