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Aug 17

Hacker Vernacular: Girl Fuzzing

I coined this phrase during DEFCON 20.

I was asking a hacker friend who I usually see once a year at the con how he was doing with the ladies. He told me things were going way better than last year. I congratulated him and asked him what he was doing differently.

At this point he showed me by going up to a girl and saying ”free hug?” with his arms outstretched. She promptly rejected and kept walking.

”Was that your method!?” I asked.
”Yeah. I just throw shit out there and see what sticks.”
”….so you’re fuzzing?”
” hm… Yeah I guess so.”
”girl fuzzing! I’m coining it! Patent pending!” I shouted.

Girl fuzzing: throwing random pickup techniques to a random sample of women to ”see what sticks”. This is much like fuzzing an application.

Apparently he has a 66% success rate. Fair enough.

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