At 04:01 PM 11/7/00 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Let's say you're a high-level spook, and you've got a bunch of encrypted intercepts of uncertain origin. Gigabytes and gigabytes
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It should be childs play to set up a "front", as a scientific or charitable organization. Dream up a CPU-intensive task that engages ... Hire a bunch of people at the front organization who sincerely believe that all these cycles are expended on the fake project, and let them effusively thank all the people who download and run the software. Explain that you can't release the source, because then people would modify it and your scientific data might be corrupted.
Scamming Extra Teraflops for Intelligence ?? :-) Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639