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Comment Re:Is Diffie Hellman at risk? (Score 4, Interesting) 114

If Diffie Hellman is at risk, then all of our "perfect forward security" reliance of SSL is gone.

Shachar

Really, it was gone already, many times. The key generation bug, the heartbleed bug... Even if it works, it is still probably easier to exploit coding mistakes, and we seem to have enough of them.

Comment Re:Are they real development costs? (Score 2) 111

Or just some financial accounting trick/fraud to lessen or completely avoid taxes through some "outsourcing" tax haven parent company with "very expensive services" like many other multinational companies love to do.

Sure they are! Coming up with DRM that lasts a full day before getting cracked is expensive!

Comment Re:Spy-Proof; Not Court-Proof (Score 1) 107

You can't hide secrets of the future with math. The path of technology history is littered with the bones form 'unbreakable/unhackable/uncrackable' products.

I wonder how you update the phone? Or prevent someone from installing a keylogger?

However, there are several encrypted message from WW2 that are still unbroken. And it doesn't change the fact that you know they are not listening NOW.

Comment Re:A crisis? (Score 1) 784

Food that was able to be grown in certain locations won't be able to be grown there anymore. Maybe it'll be able to be grown somewhere else (necessitating building a new supply chain to the new growth spot) or maybe it won't be able to be grown at all anymore.

This is not new. There are very old historical wineries that are too far north to grow grapes. Now...

Comment Re:A crisis? (Score 1) 784

No, eons ago we didn't exist, therefore no problem.

You do realize that humans were not as numerous nor did they occupy the same geographic locations in the past as they do now right?

I have to ask because this site is very US centric, and they don't seem to do well with geography and/or earth timelines. (which will probably get me modded down even though both camps complain about the other)

Humans did not even occupy Florida much until the advent of air conditioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... And perhaps it will go back to pre 1950 levels...

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