Thursday, March 11th, 2010
You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”. This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, [...]
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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 [...]
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Lately I’ve been getting into all the stuff I used to do before college and all that came along. I put on Coast to Coast AM the other day, now with George Noory after Art Bell retired. I also got BOINC up. I run SETI@Home, Enigma@Home, yoyo@home’s OGR wrapper, and SHA-1 collision search (currently dormant). [...]
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