Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer
by tptacek on Thursday May 11, 2017 @04:26PM
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I like Bunnie Huang as much as anyone here. Your publication chose to quote him in a manner suggesting that people should be adopting RSA-4096 because of NSA supercomputers. I think it's fair to criticize you for doing that.
I'm not sure why I'm meant to care about the work you've done to educate people about cryptography, or how that's germane to the discussion. I assume The Intercept is broadly supportive of cryptography. That doesn't mean you can't write a bad story about it, or even that your incentives will tend to keep you from doing that --- those incentives, after all, are mostly about growing a readership, just like any other publication.
I'm not sure why I'm meant to care about the work you've done to educate people about cryptography, or how that's germane to the discussion. I assume The Intercept is broadly supportive of cryptography. That doesn't mean you can't write a bad story about it, or even that your incentives will tend to keep you from doing that --- those incentives, after all, are mostly about growing a readership, just like any other publication.