Encryption Lava Lamps

February 25th, 2023

Via: Atlas Obscura:

Cloudflare covers about 10 percent of international web traffic, including the websites for Uber, OKCupid, or FitBit, for instance. And the colorful wall of lava lamps in the company’s San Francisco headquarters might be what’s generating the random code. The wall features over 100 lava lamps, spanning a variety of colors, and its random patterns deter hackers from accessing data.

As the lava lamps bubble and swirl, a video camera on the ceiling monitors their unpredictable changes and connects the footage to a computer, which converts the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.

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One Response to “Encryption Lava Lamps”

  1. Dennis says:
    February 25, 2023 at 10:47 pm

    Love this story. Reality’s variable set crushes any attempt at a simulacrum.

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