Ten Tales of Ross Anderson, mostly tall

While an undergraduate at Trinity College Cambridge, Ross famously accidentally blew up a bedder with his experimental Quantum Bomb in the Anderson Shelter. The bedder wasn't harmed but the experiment showed that the Maths Department had been teaching the wrong type of Quantum Mechanics, with high probability.

This would of course, come back to haunt Ross, later in life.

Then there was the  time he nearly succeeded in back-dooring the NSA...unluckily, they chose a lesser (ironically not quantum proof) algorithm over his, which was a bit of a shame Seeing all the five-eyes data from inside would have been a bit of a coup.

And of course, several times he saved a large fraction of the western banking system from collapse (again). This was largely down to understanding the inherent contradictions in blockchain, and the toxic nature of proof-of-astonishment, and the resulting potential oscillatory value proposition that this triggered whenever a user suffering from prosopagnosia was encountered.

His undergraduate teaching of Software engineering from a psephological perspective was always incredibly popular. However, students were not sure how valuable it would be in their future careers. They were wrong, unsurprisingly.

And then he got interested in vulnerabilities in Hebridean sea shanties, and prompt engineering LLMs to create new lyrics with ever more powerful earworms.

This was useful in helping the Campaign, led by Ross, to get Cambridge University to stop firing people illegally for being obstreporous. The so called Employer Justified Brain Drain was why Ross had taken a position in the University of the Outer Hebrides so that he could continue to be a thorn in the side as he had for so long been...