NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet

Posted by bob on May 16, 2017 5:23 PM EDT
The Intercept; By Sam Biddle
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Dozens of documents spanning hundreds of pages detailed the project, a joint supercomputing initiative administered by NYU, the Department of Defense, and IBM. And they were available for the entire world to download. The supercomputer described in the trove, “WindsorGreen,” was a system designed to excel at the sort of complex mathematics that underlies encryption...

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