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Re: [Cryptography] What is a secure conversation? (Was: online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Thornburg)
Thu Jan 2 16:19:08 2014
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:44:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu>
To: Alan Braggins <alan.braggins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52C54440.3020302@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Alan Braggins wrote:
> On 01/01/14 18:28, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com
> > <mailto:hallam@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > The nuclear codes leaked long ago. I know the navy one from the 60s
>
> > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/
>
> I've seen another version of that story that adds an important detail,
> but I don't know which version is correct.
[[...]]
The most detailed and authoritative (public) version is probably
http://tomnichols.net/blog/2013/12/20/update-were-u-s-nuclear-codes-set-to-zero-bruce-blair-responds/
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jthorn@astro.indiana-zebra.edu>
Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable
that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
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