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Well, to be fair, this is

Verified Atheist — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 23:23:03 +0000

In reply to Wow, VA, that is a whole new

Well, to be fair, this is closely related to what I now do for a living. (My focus is actually on formal proofs of safety properties, but security properties are a proper subset of safety properties.)

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Ramona — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:40:37 +0000

In reply to Here's an oldie but a

Wow, VA, that is a whole new

Ramona — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:39:21 +0000

In reply to Indeed. Anything this

Wow, VA, that is a whole new world. 4096-bit keys? Quantum computers? Who knew?

(Apparently everybody. But me.)

Donal, I just looked at your

artappraiser — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:09:54 +0000

In reply to He should be tweeting to get

Donal, I just looked at your link now. Hilarious! I simply cannot believe the replies British Airways started giving him on Twitter when he asked them how does a billion dollar corp only have 9-5 social media support for a business that operates 24/7? DM me yourselves. It's hard to believe those Tweets were real and not a ~~Saturday Night Live~~ Monty Python script!

Here's an oldie but a

Verified Atheist — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 04:07:47 +0000

In reply to Look around, ocean-kat.

Here's an oldie but a goodie:

There are two hard problems in computer science: cache validation, variable substitution, and off-by-one errors.

Look around, ocean-kat.

Ramona — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 02:41:54 +0000

In reply to Oh, I misunderstood. I

Look around, ocean-kat. We're awash in weird senses of humor around here. You should feel right at home!

Sometimes we're so weird about things it doesn't translate well. Then we get in trouble. Maybe you've noticed? lol

Oh, I misunderstood. I

ocean-kat — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 02:19:53 +0000

In reply to I meant that for acanuck,

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were seriously challenging me and I really try not to spout off unless I have some decent understanding of the details of the story.

But my weird sense of humor, I've always got that. I actually have to resist the urge or I'd be posting jokes here constantly.

Theoretically, I should be

artappraiser — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 01:00:45 +0000

In reply to moreover, the normal fourth

Theoretically, I should be more sympathetic to Julian's claims. Every time those T.S.A. shits have left a little love note inside that they have gone through my bag, I think I am missing something and get real pissed. But then, also every time, I either eventually found the thing or remembered how I mighta left it in the hotel room... Got paranoia 'bout this? Yez I do! (And like in every job, we know for a fact that there are T.S.A. agents that steal stuff.)

You know the story of how the

artappraiser — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:50:17 +0000

In reply to I smell a rat. I have a

You know the story of how the UK spooks made The Guardian smash the hard drive of the laptop with the Snowden stuff on it? Luggage handlers all over the world do that all the time without even trying!

Indeed. Anything this

Verified Atheist — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:45:34 +0000

In reply to I smell a rat. I have a

Indeed. Anything this important wouldn't be stored on laptops. It'd be stored on some form of external data storage and encrypted with 4,096-bit keys. Those will suffice until D-Wave or some other R&D company finally builds a true quantum computer. (Of course, I suppose the NSA might already have a quantum computer, but I honestly doubt they could keep that a secret in this day and age.)