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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.095017.27880@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:50:17 GMT
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- [Spoilers ...]
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- I think the biggest flaw in "Sneakers" is that it treats information
- (the decryption program) as a physical object (by actually putting it
- in a physical object).
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- In a more realistic movie, everyone would be searching hard disks for
- copies of the program rather than the Bay Area for a box. The movie
- would have ended when someone posted the "Too Many Secrets" program to
- sci.crypt.
-
- - Carl
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-