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Re:Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio by jasonkester on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:02PM (#7342672)
You've got to credit these guys for going the extra mile to keep you from finding out what their conference is about. Between this site and the conference website it links to, they use the acronym "RSA" twenty six times without ever once defining it.

Note that googling "RSA" gives a dozen contradictory definitions, from various things that call themselves the RSA. The conference here makes the list about halfway down, but again, without any explanation what the acronym stands for or what it is.

And of course, wikipedia just gives a two page list of RSAs for one to choose from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA

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Re:Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio by sbierwagen on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:10PM (#7342758)
RSA is named after its founders: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman.
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Re:Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio by baking on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:26PM (#7343290)
Probably more accurate to say the company was named after the RSA algorithm that was named after its inventors.
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Re:Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio by DonGateley on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @02:37AM (#7345854)
It was founded by the inventors.
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Re:Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio by wtallis on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @03:37PM (#7342924)
Do you have the same complaint when HP makes the news?
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Re:Stephen Colbert at RSA Conference 2014 – Full Audio by jasonkester on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:36PM (#7343356)
From hp.com:

  © 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
So no. They do in fact define their own name on their website.
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