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Re: Garbled in transmission.
>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Smith <[email protected]> writes:
>> I can't remember it word for word, but it went like this: "If
>> you're going to decrypt financial transactions you'd better be
>> prepared to get 1000 computers and spend 3 months on the project."
Rick> At least Harry Houdini made it look easy when *he* cracked state
Rick> of the art security technology...
I was on the Talk America radio network very briefly Monday morning
(about 6:30-6:40 EDT). The host read something like that, and
observed that it "must be pretty secure" to take three months.
I asked him how long it would be before his credit cards expired.
He got the point.
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