On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:34:28PM -0500, Brad Barnett wrote:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:05:53 -0800 (PST) Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net> wrote:
A machine that costs $2 billion today, according to Moore's law, will cost about $200,000 20 years from now. Not counting inflation. That will be well within many people's budgets.
Hmm. Something very interesting about that, is the fact that someone could basically just dump tons of data to a hard drive, and have it available when they could afford to decode it.
Some information is definitely quite valuable even five years down the road.
Yep. The Venona program in the 40's and 50's is a good example of this - many of the decrypted messages were actually intercepted years and years earlier. Storage gets cheaper and cheaper every day. David -- David Shaw | dshaw@jabberwocky.com | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson