What are msthash and msttexthash?

These two words, cropped up in some HTML which I did not want to have to be looking at this morning, as noticed in the previous two posts, continue to intrigue me. How did they get there? Should I be concerned?

So I ask Google about the second one to get a paltry 17 hits. It is clearly a very special word, even though the 'ms' bit might stand for 'Microsoft'. Most of the hits seem to be about detecting people who are using a machine translator on your lovingly crafted web page and making a bit of a mess of it. But one of them seemed to be some reasonably hard core material about web security, from which the snap above is taken. Too hard core for me, anyway.

Presumably a huge growth industry for those legally fascinated by the whole business of breaking into other peoples' computer systems. That is to say gamekeepers rather than poachers.

I associated to an excellent talk I once went to about the Internet at which the knowledgeable talker explained that security was far from the minds of the people who designed it. They just wanted to get stuff done. And by the time that they realised that there were lots of bad people out there, all kinds of weaknesses had been concreted in. Far too late to take them out.

And if I have trouble sleeping tonight, perhaps I shall puzzle out who the git Taylor is.

PS: the next day: regarding reference 3, Wikipedia now tells me that the proportion of blacks in the US as a whole is around 15%, that in Missouri rather lower at around 12%. There are 30 people in the snap below. And the web site generally does not look too clever from a diversity point of view.

Reference 1: https://taylor.git-pages.mst.edu/. The home of the snap above.

Reference 2: https://git.mst.edu/users/sign_in. Something to do with Missouri? The place where they have Missouri Breaks?

Reference 3: https://www.mst.edu/. What does colour of clothes code for? Why are the faces all so very white? Do our universities do police departments? And before one starts frothing, the Archbishop of Canterbury has one. As noticed at reference 4. And I think the Dean of Westminster comes close.

Reference 4: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/03/canterbury-close.html.