NYU ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED MILITARY CODE-BREAKING COMPUTER PROJECT TO ENTIRE INTERNET

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: May 11, 2017 at 5:22:31 PM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: NYU ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED MILITARY CODE-BREAKING COMPUTER PROJECT TO ENTIRE INTERNET
>
> NYU ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED MILITARY CODE-BREAKING COMPUTER PROJECT TO ENTIRE INTERNET
> by Sam Biddle
> May 11 2017, 4:57 a.m.
> https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed-military-code-breaking-computer-project-to-entire-internet/
>
> IN EARLY DECEMBER 2016, Adam was doing what he’s always doing, somewhere between hobby and profession: looking for 
> things that are on the internet that shouldn’t be. That week, he came across a server inside New York University’s 
> famed Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing, headed by the brilliant Chudnovsky brothers, David and 
> Gregory. The server appeared to be an internet-connected backup drive. But instead of being filled with family photos 
> and spreadsheets, this drive held confidential information on an advanced code-breaking machine that had never before 
> been described in public. Dozens of documents spanning hundreds of pages detailed the project, a joint supercomputing 
> initiative administered by NYU, the Department of Defense, and IBM. And they were available for the entire world to 
> download...
>
> [SNIP]
>
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