US Intel Agencies To Build Superconducting Computer

dcblogs writes "The Director of National Intelligence is soliciting help to develop a superconducting computer. The goal of the government's solicitation is 'to demonstrate a small-scale computer based on superconducting logic and cryogenic memory that is energy efficient, scalable, and able to solve interesting problems.' The NSA, in particular, has had a long interest in superconducting technology, but 'significant technical obstacles prevented exploration of superconducting computing,' the government said in its solicitation. Those innovations include cryogenic memory designs that allow operation of memory and logic in close proximity within the cold environment, as well as much faster switching speeds. U.S. intelligence agencies don't disclose the size of their systems, but the NSA is building a data center in Utah with a 65 MW power supply."

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VPN & Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

A little off topic I know, but I just made the link myself.

The detailed PRISM document gives an example of how to search for 'all connections that start a VPN in country X".

I've been examining the network traffic on Windows, and when you start a VPN it connects outside the VPN directly, and inside the VPN also to the same site. It sends a packet, that appear to unmask the VPN.

This could be that is how the NSA gets the VPN connect data, from a data feed from Microsoft.