I showed leaked #NSA slides at Purdue, so feds demanded the video be destroyed, by Barton Gellman | Ars Technica
▻http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/i-showed-leaked-nsa-slides-at-purdue-so-feds-demanded-the-video-be-dest
#université #censure #snowden #lol
First the US cancels all science funding to Fermilab’s Tevatron and subsequently loses the Quest for the Holy Boson to the LHC, and now all of a sudden they have money to reignite advanced quantum research?
NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption - Steven Rich, Barton Gellman - Washington Post
According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the effort to build “a cryptologically useful quantum computer” — a machine exponentially faster than classical computers — is part of a $79.7 million research program titled “Penetrating Hard Targets.”
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-seeks-to-build-quantum-computer-that-could-crack-most-types-of-encryption/2014/01/02/8fff297e-7195-11e3-8def-a33011492df2_story.html
#Penetrating_Hard_Targets
#surveillance
#Snowden
#LHC
#NSA
#quantum_computing
Confused about the NSA’s quantum computing project? This MIT computer scientist can explain.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/02/confused-about-the-nsas-quantum-computing-project-this-mit-computer-
Washington Post ignores threat to national security and publishes new NSA slides — War in Context
▻http://warincontext.org/2013/06/30/washington-post-ignores-threat-to-national-security-and-publishes-new-
Back in early June when the Washington Post published four slides from the NSA’s PowerPoint presentation on PRISM, reporter Barton Gellman wrote: “If you saw all the slides you wouldn’t publish them” — even though Edward Snowden had pressed the Post to publish all 41 slides.
Now, in spite of Gellman’s insinuation that publication of any of the remaining slides could undermine national security, the Post has gone ahead and published four new slides ►http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents.
Does this reflect newly found boldness on the part of the paper’s editors? Unlikely. Much more likely is that the Washington Post is now publishing classified information at the request of the NSA.
So, when the information in question is information the public needs to know, the Post is reluctant to publish it. But when the government decides that the release of the same information will now serve its own interests, then the Post is only too happy to oblige.