[Cryptography] People vs AI

[Bill Stewart]

On 3/17/2025 12:26 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> arxlight <arxlight at arx.li> writes:
> 
>> It must have been within hours of that when we had the conversation about the
>> strange single point of failure it was to have a substantial slice of the
>> world's crypto (in the original sense of the word) expertise on the same boat
>> in the immediate vicinity of a semi-active volcano during a total eclipse.
> 
> Something similar happened at Usenix Security in (from memory) San Antonio,
> where the first major flight out the next day was full of conference speakers,
> organisers, attendees.  Someone commented that "if this flight crashes, it'll
> set Internet security back ten years".

Bell Labs travel dept used to have rules about "no more than N employees 
on any given airplane flight."
(That was separate from the private aircraft rule, which was "No, nope, 
absolutely not, you can NOT fly your private plane on company business, 
don't even try, not even if you're not vouchering it!". Of course 
anybody who had a license or plane tried to find ways around it.)