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Why would they not want free backups at the NSA? Pay nothing, file a FOIA request for a restore, then wait 50 years. Real men don't use backups, they post the
by thyrsus 15y ago
Why would they not want free backups at the NSA? Pay nothing, file a FOIA request for a restore, then wait 50 years.
Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies. - Linus Torvalds
- gwern 15y agoSince when have FOIA requests to the NSA ever produced anything interesting within 50 years?
- dantheman 15y agoHere you go: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2012/files/H03-Cryptosystem-proposed-by-Nash.pdf http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2012/files/H03-Cryptosyst...
- gwern 15y agoI am well aware of that, having created a transcript ( http://www.gwern.net/docs/1955-nash http://www.gwern.net/docs/1955-nash ) of it. A cryptosystem that the NSA rejected because it was too easily broken is obviously not in the same category of information as what I was responding to.