[ExI] Severance

[Adrian Tymes]

The method I used that would defeat this doesn't rely on passing
messages through the elevator, or having the written message anywhere
on my person.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM Anton Sherwood <bronto at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> 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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