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Huh. 2023 Dave looks like a genius to 2025 Dave. I must be getting old.

I think EMPs radii are on the order of hundreds of miles - maybe thousands of miles - not tens of thousands of miles, let alone...

True. Which is why the finder will certainly employ two-factor identification: While one or two enterprising crypto-enthusiasts might...

That's sad and true. It reminds me of the YouTube video of the math teacher. In it, she marks a simple problem wrong. A student wrote...

Right, but in the case of open source software, the question of who takes responsibility answers itself. Anyone is free to make a branch...

Until it becomes open source. I know a few companies who spun off software to open source. Sometimes, they become Apache projects s...

Yes but not all aspects of ownership, marketing, sales, distribution, revenue and legality. Software is a product of a company...

Watched that one recently. Binged the entire series in order.

You folks need to see Mr Whipple’s Factory on the original Twilight Zone. Machines replace the workers and Robbie the Robot replaces Mr...

The same people who were responsible before the AI "took over". If someone does their home work with AI assistance, it is still their...

The main difference is that your example uses a symmetric key, "your birthday MM/DD/YYY", known by both parties, to both encrypt and...

A little too abstract. :) The reason I started this post with the example I did is because I thought (erroneously) it was a perfect...

See, that's the thing. I see very detailed descriptions of exactly how it works, but that doesn't help me intuit it. With all the math...

Ohhhhhhh. That answers one question I never quite understood. They do publish them. Like, in a catalogue. The intent is for them to be...

I've tried to intuit public key encryption but never quite managed. But this seems to wrap it up in a bow. This seems to be a very...