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Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:22:31 -1000
Sam Biddle, The Intercept, 11 May 2017 https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed-military-code-breaking-computer-project-to-entire-internet/
In early December 2016, Adam was doing what he's always doing, somewhere
between hobby and profession: looking for things that are on the Internet
that shouldn't be. That week, he came across a server inside New York
University's famed Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing,
headed by the brilliant Chudnovsky brothers, David and Gregory. The server
appeared to be an Internet-connected backup drive. But instead of being
filled with family photos and spreadsheets, this drive held confidential
information on an advanced code-breaking machine that had never before been
described in public. 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. [...]