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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
To: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov,
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On Fri, 16 May 1997, Ben Black wrote:

> i think the real reason for the 6 CPU limit has been suggested.  
> commercial release.  note the lack of black helicopters for that explanation.
> 
> b3n
> 
Funds for MOSIX came from the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the
Ministry of Science (and Energy?)...I think there are some black
helicopters over there.

	Pedro.


> On Fri, 16 May 1997, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> >    Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:40:13 -0400 (EDT)
> >    From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
> > 
> >    the current RC5 distributed cracking effort shows quite clearly
> >    that something as advanced as MOSIX is not required.  if his logic
> >    is that bad guys will use MOSIX to crack encryption brute force
> >    then he is fooling himself.
> > 
> > And besides, as far as MO6 goes, all I have to say is that adb is your
> > friend...
> > 
>