Reminds me of Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.
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Actually, he’s comparing apples to mistrals.
I’ll get my coat.
(* I can count on one hand the number of time I've used an AI tool.)
That would normally allow them to keep prices of export goods low...
A timely lesson!
With a few notable exceptions, the level of knowledge, expertise and understanding amongst government advisers and policy makers is abysmally low. c.f. https://jackgavigan.com/2015/11/23/how-well-advised-was-the-...
Making it possible to lookup and store data in a spreadsheet (maybe using something like the Google Sheets API) could unlock a huge amount of use cases.
I'll be watching this project with interest!
If you fell under one of those exceptions, you could get a special certificate for your website (from, e.g. Verisign) that allowed the webserver to "step up" the encryption negotiation with the browser to stronger algorithms and/or key lengths.
I first saw this movie in the mid-90s, and it sparked a mild fascination with how cryptography (specifically, RSA) works, that arguably influenced my career path.
Fun fact: Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) drafted the words and slides used for the lecture scene: https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/
Insightful observation.
We've reached that point in the UK, where the government has proposed draconian legislation[1] that would allow the government to force companies to create backdoors into encrypted messaging services.
As a result, Whatsapp[2] and Signal[3] have said that they will pull out of the UK, and Apple[4] has said it will remove Facetime and iMessage from the UK if the legislation passes.
1: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-clo...
2: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/09/whatsapp-...