Call-For-Bugs (CFB)

The Month of Meat-Space Bugs CFB is now officially open! We already have quite a few and can easily fill a month with minimal additional brainstorming and development, however we are more about the quality than the quantity. If someone submits a meatspace bug that is obviously more inventive, novel, or clever than one we already have on the list, that one will get bumped in favor of the better bug! In this way, this month of bugs is also a kind of contest to choose the top 30 or so unique and inventive meatspace bugs.

To submit your bug, please send full details in either your own ready-to-publish advisory form which we can assign a MOMSB ID to, or full details in a format that we can fit into our standard MOMSB advisory template, to the MOMSB editor:

I)ruid <druid@caughq.org>

Note, if you send us a ready-to-publish advisory, we will retain your original format with the exception of the addition of a MOMSB ID.

What is Meatspace?

If you are unfamiliar with the term “meatspace“, it is a dysphemism for real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality. The term originated in science fiction literature, specifically the cyberpunk genre, but it has become increasingly common in general usage, as a reference to transactions or interactions which occur in the presence of physical bodies (“meat”), rather than online or electronically. The term may be used as a conscious rejection of the derogatory connotations inherent in the term “real life” and the implication that interactions in cyberspace are less real or meaningful than physical interactions.