CD-PYOT05 (Jan 26, 2024)
Puzzle
“Alfredo, Barilla, Cavatelli…”
Vanilla Trivia | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Vanilla likes to learn about food.
Clue 2: Anything strange about the order of the words?
Clue 3: What is the dish one would most readily associate with said pasta?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Alphabet Soup
Explanation: The pastas are listed in alphabetical order, calling to mind the alphabet pasta. This pasta is used most common to make alphabet soup.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[Date | Jan-26-24]
[Barista | Vanilla]
[Subject | Business as Usual]
[File Reference | CD-PYOT05]
I’ve been thinking. Erratas. Or, well, I probably shouldn’t use that word huh? From what I understand, that word is sort of the “default” for the filters. It makes sense. Look for people who are talking about your fancy Topside surveillance tech. Of course, you also run up against a lot of bibliophiles and Yu-Gi-Oh aficionados. Probably should’ve picked a word that doesn’t already exist, huh? Anyway, what if we could block the filter from picking up our words? After all, it’s just another type of Othertech… albeit a very fancy, very secret one.
Semantic obfuscation. It’s a process that would involve deploying a lexical perturbation algorithm. Fancy way to jumble up our words in a way that we could understand, but the Meta Filters would get clogged up. We could add a dynamic synonym replacement protocol to our CaDComs, which would essentially replace the keywords the filters are checking for with semantic equivalents. From there, we could add some noise. Irrelevant data. Linguistically coherent but contextually misleading phrases. Then, a bit of syntactic restructuring. It would preserve the original meaning but alter the synaptic footprint. Top all of that off with a steganographic layer. Message within a message.
It might be overkill, but this is the most intricate Othertech we’re talking about circumventing. Still… it shouldn’t be too hard to throw something together. Of course, it’d only work on our secure Channels, CAFE and AND. Though you shouldn’t be saying anything too obvious in the DINER channel to begin with. Not filtered words, anyway. I’ll see what I can get working within the CaDCom-A’s systems. Sometimes, it’s easy to add new features; other times… less so. I guess it depends on the “mood” of the CaDCom system. As far as any of you would be concerned—you’d still be able to write and read receipts as intended. They would just be processed digitally as, well, nonsense. Plus, with the CaDCom’s transcription field, we should be able to mask our speech as well. If I can get it working, anyway.