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Maths spying: the quandary of working for the spooks

11 pointsby winstonsmithabout 11 years ago

2 comments

prjwabout 11 years ago
Good Will Hunting already took a shot at this question in 1997: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=UrOZllbNarw</a>
dangabout 11 years ago
The first submission url [1] was lifted from an original source. HN prefers original sources. Submitters: please double-check the article you post and if there is a more original source, post it instead.<p>Here, Slate did the sleazy thing and linked only to newscientist.com, not to the article. That&#x27;s all the more reason to link to the original, not the knock-off. In such cases, googling any sentence from the article almost always returns it.<p>1. <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/04/mathematicians_at_the_nsa_and_gchq_is_it_ethical_to_work_for_spy_agencies.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;health_and_science&#x2F;new_scienti...</a>