[ExI] Severance

[Anton Sherwood]

Lumon Corporation has a magic scanner that can detect letters anywhere 
in the elevator, including inside the employee's body.  Not yet 
established whether it triggers on non-alphabetic symbols: could Helly 
get away with drawing chains on her wrists?

On 2025-09-15 09:21, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> To take just one example: without going too much into things I
> shouldn't talk about much in public, let's just say I've worked in a
> place that attempted a lesser version of this, and it was trivial to
> smuggle messages past management.  I was hired to do things they
> couldn't figure out (otherwise, they'd have done it themselves), and
> this same knowledge involved means of interacting with the outside
> world (if it didn't, there would have been no work worth doing) that
> inherently opened up means of passing information that management did
> not know how to scan for.  From what I've read of the scanning systems
> in Severance, the exact same practice would have worked as-is in that
> setting too.  If management was able to set up a system to scan for
> this sort of thing, they'd have little to no need for technically
> competent employees in the first place.

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