[s-t] needle in haystack digest #3 (fwd from Nick.Barnes at pobox.com)

[Dave Howe]

> No Such Agency doesn't fab much of anything; they can't afford to.  They
> and their ilk are far more interested in things like FPGAs and adapting
> numerical algorithms to COTS SIMD hardware, such as graphics processors
> (a la http://www.gpgpu.org/).
Why do they have their own fab plant if they don't fab anything?
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/facility/nsaspl.htm