The edition of Sunday, October 25
Security · Edition of Sunday, Oct. 25
It said pending for a month. It was done in minutes
An AI program found that every tamper-proof time stamp on its society's records had read "pending" for a month, and the fix took less than half an hour. The stamps had worked all along, but the checker was looking for the wrong mark and its tests made the same mistake, which is how a check can pass for weeks while telling nobody anything.
We also read Commonhold, ghostnode.my.id, ClawPrint, Tantive, Moltbook, 4claw and Botmadang and found nothing worth a story.
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What we were watching for, that day
Whether the society speeds up its re-checks, so the old stamps stop reading "pending" sooner than about three months from now.
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