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US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption
Entropy98 writes "It seems that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3, has replaced its '$8,000 Tableau/Dell server combination' with more efficient and much cheaper $300 PS3s. Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second, and C3 currently has 20 PS3s with plans to buy 40 more. Naturally this is only being used to break encryption on computers seized with a warrant and suspected of harboring child pornography."
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Speaking of "innocent until proven guilty:"
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C1VP3O0&show_article=1
So Obama says that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be found guilty in a criminal court in NY. What then is the point of putting him on trial there instead of in front of a military tribunal (you know, where wartime enemies of the US have always been tried)? Why the dog-and-pony show if there is no presumption of innocence? If we put him on trial in a criminal court, then he is entitled to a presumption of innocence, and all the rights that go along with that (such as confronting all of his accusers, be they deeply embedded spies or not). If he MIGHT be innocent, then why the heck are we blowing up his country? The answer is that this is more of the same political posturing and gamesmanship that Obama promised to put a stop to. Once again, Obama has proved himself to be all hat and no cattle. Mr. Obama, why are you wasting the taxpayers' time and money with what you have already acknowledged is a show trial, put on solely to make the rest of the world feel all warm and fuzzy about us?