From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 03:00:04 MST
I wonder if this story gives any of you the same kind of warm fuzzies that
it gave me :-)
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Put aside images of World War II espionage and
codebreaking. Today cryptography is vital to the security of a form of
communication and commerce never imagined 60 years ago: the Internet.
Researchers at Northwestern University now have demonstrated a new
high-speed quantum cryptography method that uses the properties of light to
encrypt information into a form of code that can only be cracked by
violating the physical laws of nature...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021111070057.htm
Russell Evermore
... given a suitable environment and a prevailing transhumanist perspective,
the systematic programming of a super-intelligence can begin immediately
following the traditional ten fingers and ten toes inventory check ...
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