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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by dguido on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:56PM (#14318571)
Nothing in this article remotely qualifies as news. IBM builds computers, fast ones, to crack passwords for the US DOD. They engage with academia to apply research in building and programming them. Is that surprising? Even if it were, there's not even a source document in the article. Snoozefest.
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by exhilaration on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:11PM (#14318687)
I think this is newsworthy:

Andrew "Bunnie" Huang: "My guess is this thing, compared to the TOP500 supercomputers at the time (and probably even today) pretty much wipes the floor with them for anything crypto-related."

We've always guessed the NSA has some incredible resources, but to get a peek like this into what they had 3 years ago is definitely newsworthy. It makes the whole supercomputing race kind of a joke if governments have massively more powerful machines hidden from public view.

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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by schoen on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:25PM (#14318763)
Apparently the context suggests this particular machine had not been built and delivered at the time the documents were written, so it doesn't show that NSA had this exact machine at that time (though maybe they had other computers that were this fancy or fancier).
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by yeukhon on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:41PM (#14320649)
Well. WinsorGreen is the successor design of WinsorBlur so I am assuming Blue exists and it's just a matter of time to finish building Green.
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by schoen on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:07PM (#14320742)
I also guess the machine will be built in some form, just that the documents probably don't reflect three-year-old computational capabilities, but might reflect something more like present-day capabilities.
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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by SecretAg3nt on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:06PM (#14318643)
The point of the article is that these resources were exposed without authorization, intentional or not, to the public internet.
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