URL: http://boingboing.net/#85512053
Date: Not supplied
The Distributed.net project -- a precursor to SETI@Home that used volunteer
computer-time to attack giant, sophisticated ciphers -- has cracked RC564. I
used to have half a dozen computers working on this.
On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the
winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D039
produces the plaintext output:
The unknown message is: some things are better left unread
Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) on
the keymaster, this successful submission was not automatically detected.
It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002. The key was immediately submitted to
RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Dave[3]!_)
[1] http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/wf6mvUdf3xfR
[3] http://www.seizethedave.com/

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Kevin Mitnick's laptop, signed by Woz, on eBay
From rssfeeds@jmason.org  Wed Oct  2 11:44:39 2002

URL: http://boingboing.net/#85513208
Date: Not supplied
Kevin "Free Kevin" Mitnick and Steve "Woz" Wozniak co-hosted an episode of The
Screen Saver on Tech TV, where Woz autographed one of the laptops that Kevin
got arrested for using. Now that machine, signed by both net-celebs, is up for
sale on eBay.
This is the Toshiba Satellite T1960CS, 486 laptop computer seized by the
FBI on February 15, 1995, in Raleigh, NC, during the arrest of the world's
most celebrated computer hacker, Kevin Mitnick. The laptop is working and
has been loaded with a fresh version of Windows 95. A shrink-wrapped
version of Windows 95 on floppy, is included with the laptop. The laptop is
a 486DX with a color LCD, detachable trackball mouse, AT&T 14.4 PCMCIA
modem card, power adapter and documentation in FBI evidence bags. The
laptop has been signed on the bottom by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
Computer, and says, "You've got the whole world in your hands. --Woz (Free
Kevin!). It is also signed by Mitnick himself. The system was shown on the
September 27, 2002 episode of The Screen Savers on TechTV, where the
signatures on the bottom were authenticated in a special show hosted by
Wozniak and Mitnick. A tape of the show will also be included.
Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Jimbo!_)
[1] http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2057697313
[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/NqDajD2X9Di