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1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

Strict Cold-War-Era Oklahoma Law

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The State of Oklahoma’s Title 21. Crimes and Punishments->Chapter 9 – Offenses Related to Flags->Section 374 – Display of Red Flag or Emblem of Disloyalty reads as follows: Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly display any red flag or other emblem or banner, indicating disloyalty to [...]

Cat Jumps On Woman’s Head After She Showers

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

“Nobody believed me. I had to record it…” Human Cat Perch

Dr-Evil-Like Volcano Lair For Sale

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Sited upon small volcanic cone in the high desert midway between Las Vegas & Los Angeles, this 60-acre retreat seems to cap the mountain top with its dome-like roof: Concrete and truss beams form its dome allowing the interior to embrace 360 degrees of stark, strong almost lunar landscape. Main house of two bedrooms, 2 [...]