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The Illegal Prime

Hello, reader. An offering, for your perusal:

It’s unbelievable today, but there was a time when the government classed crypto as a munition and made it illegal for anyone to export or use it on national security grounds. Get that? We used to have illegal math in this country.
The National Security Agency were the real movers [...]

August 9, 2010 • Tags: , , , , , • Posted in: Karthik's • 2 Comments

Format:Text

The following is an essay I wrote elaborating upon the power of plain text as a digital medium. I love text based data formats; I work with plain text for nearly everything. I love working at a shell- GUIs frustrate me. I am not an authority on the subjects of GUIs and data [...]