If we really want to get to the basics…

In chemistry, a salt or ionic compound is a chemical compound consisting of an assembly of positively charged ions and negatively charged ions, which results in a compound with no net electric charge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(chemistry)

You mean WALL-E wasn’t real?

Allergies are a very real thing but so are Facebook hypochondriacs. Some marketing departments have little regard for either and will gladly label their products gluten free if it turns a higher profit. I had an online gaming companion that bought into the bullshit so hard, he was convinced a gluten free diet was curing his sons severe autism. Sigh.

I am bitching because the people that actually have issues always get left behind.

After digging a little, I think I found the start of an answer to this. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that saline solution contains sodium chloride. (Basically table salt.) In some cases, there is a small risk of gluten cross-contamination in that salt which may lead to some irritation for people who are extremely gluten intolerant.

This research path immediately opened up a mess of search results that I have no interest in digging through and fact checking.

Based on some of those search results though, I would speculate that there may have been some kind of overblown social media scare about gluten in salt and some companies just started categorizing eyedrops as gluten free.

Then, most importantly, I lost interest in this topic. Cheers!

I think a conversation about Hannah Montana Linux could be quite entertaining.

It’s a camera and stickers like this one of many odd DEFCON traditions. (Security professionals in large numbers is an interesting sight to behold.)

Edit: Unrelated bit of history from the time: This also was the DEFCON where Marcus Hutchins was arrested. The fool come rolling in driving a Lambo for some reason so we kinda figured something was up.

(One of my favs from DEFCON a few years back.)

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