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#766 - FFAF: The Dangers of "Digital Dark Ages"

The Counsel of Trent

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The Importance of Reverse Engineering

In 2000, the NNSA was that national, national nuclear security administration had specified a life extension program for W76 warheads to enable under remaining service until at least 2040. So we need fog bank as part of the element for them to work. Nobody knows how to make this stuff. They ended up having to do another reverse engineering process, these computer simulations. It turns out they were able to recreate fog bank even better than what they had made previously back in the 70s. And when they ran computer simulations with the new fog bank, it didn't work. Even if the physical medium doesn't degrade, even if you have the data there, if you don't have the operating system

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