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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Head-Mounted Police Cameras in the UK | Main | Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid Returns to Southern California » June 1, 2007Friday Squid Blogging: 1873 Giant Squid Stored in BathtubNewfoundland naturalist Moses Harvey collected the first complete specimen of a giant squid in December 1873. Posted on June 1, 2007 at 3:19 PM • 11 Comments • View Blog Reactions To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. If I had a giant squid, I guess that's where I'd keep it too! Posted by: Joe at June 1, 2007 4:09 PM > He kept it in his bathtub. For how long? Weeks? It was dead, right? It sure looks dead in that picture. Posted by: Herman at June 1, 2007 5:01 PM Ok, I've been reading this blog for a little while now and I have to ask. What is it with the Friday squid blogging? Posted by: alastair at June 1, 2007 5:31 PM Alastair, you obviously mean: what is it with all the crypto stuff in between the squid news? We come here for the squids! Posted by: Bubble Boy at June 1, 2007 5:35 PM I don't get it, alastair. I use SQuIDs for all my TEMPEST snooping work. Nothing else is sensitive enough! Posted by: DV Henkel-Wallace at June 1, 2007 7:18 PM My uneducated guess is the man was a bachelor. Squid make ink. Ink used in old time cryptography.;) Posted by: whistler at June 2, 2007 3:05 AM Did anyone else read the header and think "If they were giant squid, how did he keep 1873 of them in a bathtub?" No? Great, I'm the dumb one then... Posted by: Albatross at June 2, 2007 1:26 PM preserved giant squid can be seen at the Marine Institute in St. John's, no idea if it's the original Posted by: kelly at June 3, 2007 1:24 PM There was a joke in Viz a few years back about "saving whales" with the punchline "I've been saving this one for sometime now and it's gone a bit smelly". Posted by: Andy at June 4, 2007 8:13 AM @Albatross: No, I had the same the same thought, too. I suppose if you used a swimming pool as your "bathtub"... Posted by: Fnord Prefect at June 6, 2007 8:20 PM Post a comment
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