Don’t Blame ROT13 For YOUR Failures
I was reading this article about the iPhone lock-unlock-hack-update mess and found this line:
At its core, jailbreaking an iPhone is just a matter of editing a small number of Unix files, which opens up the rest of the phone — that’s like complaining your encryption sucks when you’re using ROT13.
That’s it. I’m not reading Engadget anymore. 
Sometime back in 2001 when I was messing around with Microsoft’s Visual Basic I made a small program that I called The ROT13 Encoder/Decoder. All it did was take an input character and return the encrypted or decrypted ROT13 equivalent. It was shit. It couldn’t even parse strings. But it was the first executable program I made and I was rather proud of it. Even gave it to Raghav (Krish Raghav, not Ragha) to try it. I think I even sent him email encrypted with ROT13 a few times.
Ah, the old times. Man, I feel so old. Now people are talking about AES and RSA and stuff. Not for me, thank you.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:09 am
What kind of an idiot quote is that? If you’re using ROT13, your encryption does suck.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Marc. I read the entire blog and all i can say is huh??????
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
huh
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Nice try, but I know Sundar understood most of it. It’s all a bit techie, Anusha.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
HUH ??
October 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
hehe
October 8th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Well, obviously Arun M is kidding. You don’t know his status as Super Elite Programmer Dude in his college. He’s the guy who wrote a program to receive C/C++ code over the intranet, compile the code and get errors and report if the code was executed successfully… for a symposium.
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Umm, that’s impressive. (?)
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Yeah. Even we don’t understand how exactly he did it. We think he used alien technology.
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Hehe, anything you don’t understand becomes alien technology ?
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from aliens.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I’m not suprised.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
That is actually a well known quote.
I’m saying alien technology because it is alien technology. Ask Arun M if you wish.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Ask him what? If he’s alien?
October 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Why not? Go ahead.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
He’s an engineering student. By default, he does things and says things that are weird for me. So even if he admits to being an alien, it’d make no difference to me.
October 24th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Ok well you have a point but we have other engineering students here who’ll help you out.
Not Sundar though. He’ll do something weird just to throw you off.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
sundar is expected to do weird things so it won’t throw her off. pay attention marc.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
WHO are the other engineering students who’d help me out? Although I believe the more important question would be what made you think I need help with any of this?
October 25th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Suren, she doesn’t know that.
Anusha, comment no. 2 did.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I’ll ask for help when I need it. This stuff has nothing to do with my life, thankyouverymuch.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
That is what the establishment would have you believe in order to continue their suppression of freedom.