The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite and laughs at his own inability to pronounce that correctly, which Mike Mills kept trying to get him to do. Stipe says he loved Dr. Seuss as a kid but always pronounced his name the wrong way. The song's complete title is not featured in the lyrics, but there is the line "the sidewinder sleeps in a coil" as well as the later line "the sidewinder sleeps on its back". A sidewinder is a species of rattlesnake ("Crotalus cerastes"), and also an antique style of telephone, with a winding handle on the side. The lyrics frequently refer to making and
Snake oil (cryptography) cannot be the sole method of rating a security product, since there can be exceptions to most of these rules. <nowiki>[...]</nowiki> But if you're looking at something that exhibits several warning signs, you're probably dealing with snake oil." This is not an exhaustive list of snake oil signs. A more thorough list is given in the external articles linked in the section below. Secret system Technobabble "Unbreakable" One-time pads Unsubstantiated "bit" claims Snake oil (cryptography) In cryptography, snake oil is any cryptographic method or product considered to be bogus or fraudulent. The name derives from snake oil, one type of