September 15th, 2002
Polyphemus’s one eye is a single point of failure; when Odysseus pokes
it out, he is much less able to defend himself. Polyphemus’s alarm is
ignored because Odysseus said his name was Nobody, so he winds up
shouting that nobody is trying to kill him (you’d think the other
Cyclopes would come see what’s going on, but maybe Polyphemus shouts
random stupid things all the time, like an IDS). Polyphemus finally
has to let the sheep out to graze — it’s a mission-critical function
– and Odysseus and his men then escape by masquerading as legitimate
traffic (sheep). [via Crypto-Gram]
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