I've had my HP since '93, I just finished up an electrical engineering major and that calculator has seen me through the whole way. I know compared to today's standards it is slow and short on memory, but what a hell of a calculator. It can still compete with virtually any calculator out there, and it's 8 years old. EIGHT YEARS OLD! Amazing. It's too bad that the HP team has been disbanded. Oh, and for what it's worth: I still use the calculator on a daily basis, and it's only on its third set of batteries. To any HP people reading this -- you made a great product. Thank you.
First, no, there's absolutly no indication that encryption was not used. Anyone who tries to blame Phil is a complte moron.
Second, why would people choose to blame PGP of all things!? Hell, AES or even multiple DESs could have been used (other encryption methods) and been just as/even more effective. And who are you going to point fingers at that for? The NSA or academia?
Seriously, this whole anti-crypto movement is really pissing me off. So the next time you hear someone blame crypto for this, point out the facts and then punch them in the nose for being dumb.
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I've had my HP since '93, I just finished up an electrical engineering major and that calculator has seen me through the whole way. I know compared to today's standards it is slow and short on memory, but what a hell of a calculator. It can still compete with virtually any calculator out there, and it's 8 years old. EIGHT YEARS OLD! Amazing. It's too bad that the HP team has been disbanded. Oh, and for what it's worth: I still use the calculator on a daily basis, and it's only on its third set of batteries. To any HP people reading this -- you made a great product. Thank you.
First, no, there's absolutly no indication that encryption was not used. Anyone who tries to blame Phil is a complte moron.
Second, why would people choose to blame PGP of all things!? Hell, AES or even multiple DESs could have been used (other encryption methods) and been just as/even more effective. And who are you going to point fingers at that for? The NSA or academia?
Seriously, this whole anti-crypto movement is really pissing me off. So the next time you hear someone blame crypto for this, point out the facts and then punch them in the nose for being dumb.