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Re:Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source co... by userbinator on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:04PM (#23386505)
With all the security paranoia these days, the future of "digital archaeology" seems pretty bleak. Even if you do manage to find the storage media, it's likely to have been encrypted with an algorithm that remains unbroken.
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Re:Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source co... by bredren on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @07:21PM (#23397723)
Perhaps, but it also may be cracking the password is a trivial endeavor.
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