Not sure of the spelling but IBM do ALOT of work in Poughkeepsie. I believe it's the old Lotus tech farm.

Where did you find the info about the NSA?

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk>
To: gllug@linux.co.uk
Sent: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:24:54 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Bomb the ISP's

> Nix wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Nathan Matthews said:
> > >>From what I understand Quantum Computers stand to make any Prime Factor
> > > based code almost trivial to decript, There certainly a theoretical
> > > possibility.  I'd be surprised if the NSA didnt allready possess one.
> > 
> > The NSA are spook mathematicians, not spook quantum physicists.
> > 
> > There are *very* few good quantum computing people out there, and
> > they're overwhelmingly concentrated in academia (and IBM). There are few
> > enough that they can be individually tracked :)
> 
> <ramble>
> IBM. What exactly is IBM's relationship with the US infrastructure? They
> write AIX in Texas you know (this might explain a few things)[1]. I'm
> not sure where they write MVS (or zOS as they call it these days), I
> think it's NY.
> </ramble>
> 
> Regards, Ian
> 
> [1] It's a bit weird exchanging emails with people in TX with Asian
> names. It's just so contrary to the place's image. I know, I shouldn't
> be so prejudiced. About TX I mean of course.
> 
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