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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado (arstechnica.com)
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[-] eletes@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data.

I want to dream that it was either foreign actor involvement or he cracked something big like a cryptocurrency

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago

Cryptocurrency is not big, it is a scam.

[-] josefo@leminal.space 20 points 4 months ago

Also cryptography and cryptocurrency are not the same my dude

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That’s not even the first guy who named both cryptocurrency and cryptography in the same comment, my guy

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I think you misread my comment, I didn't mention cryptography, I only mentioned cryptocurrency.

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