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Depends on the exact encryption but from the sounds of the tweet ("$/CPU") it sounds like it could have been just brute forced.

• eli 17y ago
  Sure, but the obvious question: where did they find a secret military video protected by encryption that is weak enough to be bruteforced?
  • danielharan 17y ago
    With enough $/CPUs, it's all weak.
    • JeremyBanks 17y ago
      No, it's not. The amount of computing power that would be needed to break the kind of encryption we should expect them to be using would be immense. It would likely be impossible, or at least impractically expensive. This is a very interesting part of the story.
      • Frazzydee 17y ago
        And, if it was distributed computing, presumably we'd have heard about it and wouldn't be having this conversation.
  • JulianMorrison 17y ago
    You're assuming that military = supersecret. This from the same military that didn't even bother encrypting transmissions from Predator drones.