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In early December 2016, Adam was doing what he’s always doing, somewhere between hobby and profession: looking for things that are on the Internet that shouldn’t be.
That week, he came across a server inside New York University’s famed Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Super-computing, headed by the brilliant Chudnovsky brothers, David and Gregory.
The server appeared to be an Internet-connected backup drive. But instead of being filled with family photos and spreadsheets, this drive held confidential information on an advanced code-breaking machine that had never before been described in public.
Dozens of documents spanning hundreds of pages detailed the project, a joint super-computing initiative administered by NYU, the Department of Defense, and IBM. And they were available for the entire world to download.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/...tire-internet/
That week, he came across a server inside New York University’s famed Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Super-computing, headed by the brilliant Chudnovsky brothers, David and Gregory.
The server appeared to be an Internet-connected backup drive. But instead of being filled with family photos and spreadsheets, this drive held confidential information on an advanced code-breaking machine that had never before been described in public.
Dozens of documents spanning hundreds of pages detailed the project, a joint super-computing initiative administered by NYU, the Department of Defense, and IBM. And they were available for the entire world to download.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/...tire-internet/