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XPost: comp.dsp, sci.crypt, sci.electronics.design
From: jya@ieee.org
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
> On Dec 17, 7:44 pm, Jerry Avins wrote:
>> What do you mean "get the encryption right"? I understood that there was
>> no encryption at all.
>
> I just assumed that, since it is the US military, employing a drone to
> do semi-stealth reconnaisance, that a basic requirement would be that
> young kids who probably earn < $100/month should not be able to
> intercept the stealth video. My bad.
>
> Maybe they should leave it as it is. That way, the terrorists could
> put it up on YouTube. Maybe there is a Hollywood show in it...
>
> "So You Think You Can Out-Run A Hell-Fire Missile."
>
>>> The Predator was not exactly a high-school science project.
>>> Surely we can all agree that there is something ironic about a top-
>>> secrete weapon lacking security that a 20-year-old computer science
>>> student at a top engineering school could probably get right (almost)
>>> on the first run.
>>> What they did (not do), given rancid amounts of money given to them by
>>> the general public, is inexcusable.
>> It wasn't encryption that failed, but specification.
>
> Hmmm...that's a bit like a surgeon leaving a person's gut open after
> an appendectomy and saying,
>
> "Well, technically, you never explicitly said to stitch him up, geez."
Exactly like.
Jerry
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