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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by kremlin on Saturday February 01, 2014 @01:25PM (#7162650)
thanks. First sentence of second paragraph had my mind in shambles trying to parse it.

"There isn't a card with an electronic chip available, or it has some sort of security technology that UCL professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater (67) was involved in developing."

I haven't a clue what that means.

[edit] wait, your link just ends up at the same article for me.

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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by intslack on Saturday February 01, 2014 @02:18PM (#7162947)
A mod changed the link, earlier it was just a several sentence gigaom "article" linking to a Google translation of http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20140131_049.
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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by 1337biz on Saturday February 01, 2014 @03:36PM (#7163289)
Thanks to the mod for the link change. Only found the standaard translation and thought the gigaom was at least some form of a summary and better than a google translated document.
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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by things on Saturday February 01, 2014 @04:34PM (#7163503)
That's a pretty literal translation from Dutch, a better interpretation would be "There isn't a chip card in circulation without security technology based on the work of UCL professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater".
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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by kremlin on Sunday February 02, 2014 @07:14AM (#7165757)
That's what I thought it meant after trying to re-piece the words together in a way that made sense in English.
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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by jessaustin on Saturday February 01, 2014 @01:47PM (#7162768)
That sentence is not perfectly idiomatic, but it seems to assert that Prof. Quisquater was involved in developing security tech for all chip-equipped cards that are currently available.
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Re:Belgian professor in cryptography hacked by createmyaccount on Saturday February 01, 2014 @03:01PM (#7163131)
That sentence is a literal translation from Dutch. Basically saying that the professor has been involved in the development of basically any card with an electronic chip available.
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