Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Encryption? You Don't Need No Steenkin' Encryption!

HP's new computer system:
According to HP, The Machine can manage 160 petabytes of data in a mere 250 nanoseconds. And, what’s more, this isn’t just for huge supercomputers- it could be used in smaller devices such as smartphones and laptops. During a keynote speech given at Discover, chief technology officer Martin Fink explained that if the technology was scaled down, smartphones could be fabricated with 100 terabytes of memory.
Anyone want to bet that the NSA doesn't already have a buttload of these things?

The way things are going, most encryption protocols will slow down the NSA about as much as a speed bump will slow down a helicopter.

2 comments:

Sarah said...

I'll bet they don't.

While interesting, memristors and 3d memory aren't anywhere yet. HP trumpeting this is at their great leap forward is, as a supremely snarky blog had it, "one step below burning the place down for the insurance money".

Next up: quantum computing... on memristors! On your smart watch by 2020.

Old NFO said...

There are a number of 'small' footprint massive parallel machines floating around... Just sayin...