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What about that whole thing about geographic proximity to the school in question? How does one reconcile a particular choice if it involves a long commute or relocation? And do fam…

It's either that or sharks with frickin' "LASER" beams attached to their heads...

Oh, I dunno, maybe by promising to vaporize it with multiple thermonuclear warheads? I mean, I did contrast the idea with an a attack involving a hypothetical Dyson sphere...

That's the one!

Well, what if you just ransom it? Targeting it is hardly destructive.

Bruce Schneier once equated the security of a 256 bit private key by comparing the energy needed to brute force all possible combinations of 256 bits to the amount of energy harnes…

And so, as Microsoft Windows continues its precipitous decline, that bastard abomination known as the Windows systray icon finds a way to ride the mass exodus to Mac OS, much like …

If I had a factory job, the last thing I'd ever want is for my picture to be put on display, telling the whole world that my lot in life was that of an indentured servant, making $…

I agree. In that scenario, I feel absolutely no need for restraint in attacking someone else's encrypted information. Namely, when that someone else is an uninvited eavesdropper. I…

Yeah, Phil Zimmerman's article mostly addresses intercepting vulnerable transmissions over a wire or through the air waves. Not so much about breaking encryption, and attacking a s…

Both are intended for controlled distribution. I expect my doctor and the testing center to control the dissemination of my protected healthcare information. The production company…

I know that DRM isn't explicitly defined as encryption, but encryption is usually the apparatus that achieves the goal of DRM. In most modern situations DRM schemes involve careful…

So, no one ever dares to ask this, but I'm going to because I never see mention of it crop up in these sorts of discussions. Where do you draw the line between an individual's asse…