
Our Ethics Must Catch Up with Our Increasingly Powerful Technology
Humanity is like a teenager trying to control a 500-horsepower Ferrari
Martin E. Hellman is a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is co-inventor of public-key cryptography.
Humanity is like a teenager trying to control a 500-horsepower Ferrari
Conventional ideas about what makes America safe have become dangerously obsolete
The search for privacy in an age of electronic communications has given rise to new methods of encryption. These methods are more practical than older ones and are mathematically more interesting...
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