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		mcguire on May 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rejection Letter "ETERNALBLUE was part of a release of code that also gave us such interesting names as EDUCATEDSCHOLAR, ETERNALROMANCE, and ERRATICGOPHER. Oh to be a fly on the wall at the classified NSA committee meetings discussing the deployment of their weaponized ERRATIC GOPHER ..." Any one know what the E means in code names? There's a list somewhere, but I can't remember where now.

tgsovlerkhgsel on May 13, 2017 [–]

I read somewhere that codename "namespaces" (aka starting letters) are assigned to agencies, but not sure if that applies to this sort of codename.

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