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Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman?

From Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman?
Date 2022-06-12 19:06 +0200
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On 2022-06-11 23:02:01 +0000, Paul Alsing said:

> On Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 3:15:03 PM UTC-7, mitchr...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> He cracked the government safes containing the design of the atomic bomb.
> 
> And your evidence for this wild claim is what, Mitch?

He explained it in "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman". It wasn't to 
help the Russians; it was to convince the people around him that weak 
security was no better than no security at all. Many of the safes were 
"protected" by manufacturer-installed codes like 12345. Today some 
people "lock" their telephones with 0000.


-- 
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

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Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2022-06-11 00:31 -0700
  Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2022-06-11 09:59 +0200
  Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? rotchm <rotchm@gmail.com> - 2022-06-11 05:56 -0700
  Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2022-06-11 11:29 -0700
    Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2022-06-11 15:15 -0700
      Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2022-06-11 15:20 -0700
        Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2022-06-11 21:34 -0500
      Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2022-06-11 16:02 -0700
        Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? "mitchr...@gmail.com" <mitchrae3323@gmail.com> - 2022-06-11 23:23 -0700
          Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2022-06-11 23:31 -0700
        Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2022-06-12 19:06 +0200
  Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2022-06-12 09:37 +0200
    Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr> - 2022-06-12 19:11 +0200
      Re: Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman? nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2022-06-13 11:19 +0200

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