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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 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