Re:Why the Tor attack matters
by gingerlime on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:36AM
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> was broken for a sum of money any angel investor in SFBA could have coughed up.
perhaps nitpicking, and a bit tangential to this debate, but I can't imagine the $1m on its own would be enough to break it.
I imagine they have some fairly beefy research budget with an existing infrastructure with a substantial computing power and prior research experience to begin with. So quite a tall giant to stand on. If I had to guess, the $1m was only there to cover time spent on this very specific task at hand, and for allocating researchers' time away from other tasks...
perhaps nitpicking, and a bit tangential to this debate, but I can't imagine the $1m on its own would be enough to break it.
I imagine they have some fairly beefy research budget with an existing infrastructure with a substantial computing power and prior research experience to begin with. So quite a tall giant to stand on. If I had to guess, the $1m was only there to cover time spent on this very specific task at hand, and for allocating researchers' time away from other tasks...