Word: secrets
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Dunn took over last October when former Radcliffe College president Linda S. Wilson stepped down as part of the Radcliffe merger agreement, which was announced in April of 1999 after months of secret negotiations...
That last point is exactly what inhabitants of major cities fear most. OK, plenty of New Yorkers have long harbored a secret hope that rising crime rates will yank housing prices back into the realm of reason. But for the most part, city dwellers have spent the past five or six years in a state of uneasy contentment, pleased but mystified by the drop in crime, never quite believing they were safe. Maybe it's better that we never got too comfortable...
...does most of the upfront p.r. in the anti-crypto effort. The FBI doesn't like the prospect of losing some wiretaps. That's just the FBI; it would say the same thing about telepathy if it had it. The true secret mavens of crypto are at the NSA. Spy-code breakers such as Alan Turing invented electronic computers in the first place, so the NSA has a long-held hegemony here. The NSA sets the U.S. government's agenda on crypto, and it will not fairly or openly debate this subject, ever...
...secret behind Moore's law is that chipmakers double every 18 months or so the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a silicon wafer the size of a fingernail. They do this by etching microscopic grooves onto crystalline silicon with beams of ultraviolet radiation. A typical wire in a Pentium chip is now 1/500 the width of a human hair; the insulating layer is only 25 atoms thick...
...Intelligence Agencies are nervously eyeing these new designs. Quantum computers, in particular, could be so powerful that they might one day break the most intricate secret codes the CIA can concoct. Not that a quantum supercomputer is going to leap out of some laboratory and paralyze the CIA anytime soon. These computers seem to be exquisitely sensitive. The tiniest disturbance--even a passing cosmic ray--can change the orientation of their computational atoms, spoiling the calculation. At present, quantum computers can perform only trivial calculations on perhaps five atoms. To do any useful work, they would need to calculate...