When I was a kid someone ripped off a shipyard arc welder from the dock in
Detroit where my dad's boat (a great lakes car carrier, he was first mate) was
tied up. We are talking tons here (the theory was they tore it down and sold the
copper) it was about 1/2 the size of one of those pup trailers they use on
tandamn semi-trailer rigs. The only way they could figure that it could have
been done was to use a truck mounted crane to lift it over the fence.That would
have been before 1953 so those kinds of things are not all that new.
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cbwaters wrote:
Hell,
Down here in Geawga (sp)we had a small but determined gang of thieves
who were "liberating" construction equipment from convenient nearby work
sites and using it to load ATM machines into trucks and cart them off.
Chainsaws are so last week.
Cory Waters
still has a JOB...THAT's so last generation...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter J. Alling"
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Re: Supercomputers
But, a really determined thief will use a chainsaw on the walls.
(Lock picking is so pass� these days).
Graywolf wrote:
BTW for anyone interested SSL (how your credit card information is
transmitted over the internet) uses 128bit encription. My point
throughout this has been that expensive and impossible are two very
different things.
There is an old thieve's cant that goes something like, "Any lock
someone can build, someone else can figure out how to open".
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cbwaters wrote:
I simply can not imagine somebody buying that monster computer and
using it for a YEAR to crack my emails...that'd be pretty
cost-ineffective. But then, there's always the government...
CW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Graywolf"
Tell me again how secure your cipher is from brut force decryption
(grin). Next year's IBM should be able to do that 2048 bit jobby in
one year all by its lonesome.
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two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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