I love encryption. As a kid, the occasional “secret decoder ring” I’d get out of a box of cereal or Cracker Jacks was a treasure worthy of King Tut himself. In my high-school years I studied how to make (and break) ciphers on paper, and I went on to study computer encryption as well — …
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In the “ouch, that’s gotta hurt” category: “A grandmother whose Victoria Sponge was honoured with runner-up spot in a village fete cake-baking contest was rather disappointed to discover she’d actually been the only competitor.“
As featured in British author Peter F. Hamilton’s A Quantum Murder and the movie Paycheck, the technology for wiping specific memories is on it’s way to reality. This could be a very good thing, in some cases.
Here’s something you don’t hear about every day.