Well, That’s Unique

 

Somebody is decoding YouTube video addresses.  The video I found that he bragged about decoding is a Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World clip.  And more proof that these clowns are not decoding anything.

Of course, the point of having a scrambled and meaningless looking set of alphanumeric characters is to produce a unique identifier.  You don’t want someone looking for Brie Larson videos to have the worst thing imaginable happen.  Accidentally getting pointed at a video with songs performed by Barney tue dinosaur.  Or gematria sports betting.

Google is very good at encryption stuff.  You also don’t want hacker mentality random people playing around with their code and changing stuff around so someone that uploaded their family picnic video gets edited into Barney or other unwanted material.  I imagine there’s something going on like a pumped up version of a stock numbering system used by retailers, like the MOD 11 system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit

The function of such a system is to avoid transposition errors and other simple mistakes like making that last digit that’s actually a 1 in reality entered as a 2 and stumbling upon a different legitimate stock number.  Now you thought you were buying a stuffed Barney doll but it was rung up as a plasma TV.  Because by the doctrine of close enough, that must be true.  No refunds allowed.

If one attempts to “decode” and find a similar video address and if one is simply relying on changing a single character or transposing two of the characters, you get a video unavailable error.  That’s the way life works with encryption.

An astute identity theft hacker will take note of an obsession with gematria coding.  That’s the same kind of person that will do some kind or reverse gematria on their social security number.  That will look for synchronicity in their girlfriend’s name and phone number - and post the decode on a blog.  The same person that will answer internet quizzes about posting your favorite movie as a gif, because the security questions at your bank include your favorite movie.  Wouldn’t the world be a lot more fun if your bank password was a two digit number and the only security question was, “Which color do you like better, yellow or blue?”

The opposite of decoding is going on in gematria decodes.  Now for that video we have a screenful of gematria suffers, sorry…ciphers, that provides 29 different values.  And depending on who you’re talking to they all mean different things at different times.  Now you absolutely have no idea what it’s supposed to mean other than your own interpretation.  And of course it’s not a true gematria decode without reporting it after the fact.  If you managed to crack the encryption you would actually be able to predict future video addresses.  Ain’t gonna happen.