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I never did reach a truce with the locksmiths. A couple years later, I met Billy Edwards, the author of that editorial denouncing me, at a trade show, and when he learned who I was he refused to shake
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NB: While I never intended to piss off locksmiths with my master keying paper, I did write a followup couple years later about safes and safecracking, partly out of spite. https://www.mattblaze.org/pa
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I wrote that paper after I had moved from AT&T Labs to U. Penn. The Penn locksmith went totally apoplectic, and wrote regular angry letters to the dean and to the head of campus security warning about
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Storage guy. HPC/supercomputing. Sysadmin. Mathematician at heart. Free/open {soft,firm,hard}ware enthusiast. *BSD, GNU+Linux, AIX. Software portability proponent. (he/him or they/them) 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
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Jason Bowen 🇺🇦
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Storage guy. HPC/supercomputing. Sysadmin. Mathematician at heart. Free/open {soft,firm,hard}ware enthusiast. *BSD, GNU+Linux, AIX. Software portability proponent. (he/him or they/them) 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦
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@mattblaze@federate.social Damn, that's wild
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