alt Hacker NewsIn their suspicious message [1] claiming to have been hacked, the user and/or agent says
> To help identify accounts and actions that have been directly verified by me, I will use the term “NATCIOS” to indicate anything I have personally verified.
Does anyone have any idea what "NATCIOS" means here? I cannot find this term anywhere on the internet. (Honestly, that sentence is really weird. I almost wonder whether this is someone experiencing a health episode?)
[1] https://lwn.net/ml/all/AS8PR08MB6055AE3054B34F6A567AC95BCF08...
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Because I'm probably not the only one thinking it, here are anagrams [0] for your Setec Astronomy needs.
[0] https://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=NATCIOS&t=...
And what’s stopping an AI agent from throwing in a casual NATCIOS here and there?
Not Ai, Trusted Citizen Indicated Or Suggested?
The senders name is Nathan - maybe NAThan Confirmed Information Or Something? Ha.
(Above is my own guess. Separately, Gemini Pro said it was just a made up word.)
Likely the point of NATCIOS is exactly in being a made-up word not found anywhere, so a model won't utter it.
The reply to that message notes that the email doesn't read like previous emails he's sent, and the Github account mentioned was created an hour prior to the email being sent. I think it's at least somewhat feasible that it's still the LLM writing, and the acronym is just something it made up.