news.com.com— Popular distributed computing project decrypts first of three coded messages that the historic Enigma machine was unable to back in World War 2.
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@CheesyPetezaagreed. I wondered the same thing myself.Has anyone actually gone through the code and complied it themselves and run the check-sums?It would be quite funny if this was an elaborate hoax to get a bunch of know-it-all nerds to install a trojan on their machines.It has all the markings of bs in the marketing, communications and the developers: - calling people to rally some obscure goal that no one really cares about anyway - encryption - which all techies seem to have a passing interest in and consider "sexy" - "open source code" - bad website layout - services running on people's machines that communicate with the outside world where the user has no idea what's being sent - app developers that seem to know something about encryption and security - perhaps quite a bit more than the users
urusaiFeb 28, 2006
Actual message:"Preparing nuclear missile for launch from moon base. Require Ark of Covenant for final preparations. Please expedite."
joel2600Feb 28, 2006
tktk .... man, it's been too long since i laughed at an internet post out loud.
aquaxFeb 28, 2006
Setting it up to run on OS X is a piece of cake :-) I'm running it on my dual processor G4 tower and my PowerBook G4.
srirachaFeb 28, 2006
@CheesyPetezaagreed. I wondered the same thing myself.Has anyone actually gone through the code and complied it themselves and run the check-sums?It would be quite funny if this was an elaborate hoax to get a bunch of know-it-all nerds to install a trojan on their machines.It has all the markings of bs in the marketing, communications and the developers: - calling people to rally some obscure goal that no one really cares about anyway - encryption - which all techies seem to have a passing interest in and consider "sexy" - "open source code" - bad website layout - services running on people's machines that communicate with the outside world where the user has no idea what's being sent - app developers that seem to know something about encryption and security - perhaps quite a bit more than the users
ethergnatFeb 28, 2006
That's unusual--I've never seen a thread that could be considered Godwined before the first post. ;)