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.
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2 comments:

  1. Sarah6/17/2014 9:31 AM

    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.

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  2. Old NFO6/17/2014 12:02 PM

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

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