Maths spying: the quandary of working for the spooks

Good Will Hunting already took a shot at this question in 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

The first submission url [1] was lifted from an original source. HN prefers original sources. Submitters: please double-check the article you post and if there is a more original source, post it instead.

Here, Slate did the sleazy thing and linked only to newscientist.com, not to the article. That's all the more reason to link to the original, not the knock-off. In such cases, googling any sentence from the article almost always returns it.

1. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scienti...