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How Laura Poitras Helped Snowdenski Spill His Secrets
2013-08-15
[NY Times Magazine] A lengthy but revealing article.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  A thousand guesses per hour won't do you any good, Which guess was right?

One out of one-thousand? But which one?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-08-15 16:05  

#2  "Assume that your adversary can make one trillion guesses per second."

Facial recognition now comes standard on many laptops and you can get a super computer for a few thousand dollars. This really is a brand new world.
Posted by: frozen al   2013-08-15 11:41  

#1  Chemotherapy might be an appropriate analogy for these people. They make you sick, have lingering side effects with oftentimes questionable results. Unfortunately, lifestyle changes were ignored and now a far greater risk is at hand which makes them relevant and necessary.

Probably should have been posted under 'Land of the Free', my bad.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-15 03:23  

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