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Submission + - Leaked Heartland Institute Memo Authenticity Questioned (theatlantic.com)

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sithkhan
sithkhan writes: "After the explosive leak of the Heartland Institute documents on Thursday, the documents were looked over by a reporter for The Atlantic. Seems all the leaked documents are similar and consistent, with the exception of one: that damning memo.
FTFA:
" 1. All of the documents are high-quality PDFs generated from original electronic files . . . except for the "Climate Strategy" memo. (Hereinafter, "the memo"). That appears to have been printed out and scanned, though it may also have been faxed.
Either way, why? After they wrote up their Top Secret Here's All the Bad Stuff We're Gonna Do This Year memo, did the author hand it to his secretary and say "Now scan this in for the Board"? Or did he fax it across the hall to his buddy?
This seems a strange and ponderous way to go about it--especially since the other documents illustrate that the Heartland Institute has fully mastered the Print to PDF command.
It is, however, exactly what I would do if I were trying to make sure that the document had no potentially incriminating metadata in the pdf."

There's much more to read and consider at the link.

The author gives two caveats, which are somewhat at odds with one another."

Comment Re:Why are GPUs faster? (Score 1) 128

by Stavr0 (#36504314) Attached to: Brute-Force Password Cracking With GPUs

My naive interpretation of this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/GPU_Computing.html

In effect, having a good,recent GPU is the equivalent of having hundreds of CPUs all in one single chip. Since password guessing is a task that can be divided easily, the GPU is 100x faster than a regular CPU, and it is very efficient at number-crunching.

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