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notinpersia··on South African authorities admit to mass surveillance
If traffic is encrypted E2E or OE it should not be a problem that someone eavesdrop on traffic.

Here is one to make public key crypto practical using AI+Human derived mnemonics:

Btw, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was hacked recently, which is another interesting story.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f2k6fsIkDmIS1WyJAT0l...

notinpersia··on The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
See this, too. Happy to share code/implementation details.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f2k6fsIkDmIS1WyJAT0l...

notinpersia··on Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
He wrote his treatise on Algebra in Arabic because he was educated in Arabic and the language of science was Arabic in that area and at that time. AlNassirya in Baghdad was the most advanced educational institution in the world at the time. I don’t know if he was a student or teacher there but it also has an Arabic name and was built by an Islamic caliph. The same with mathematicians from India traveling all the way to Baghdad to tell the caliph about their invention of zero. Persians has many amazing contributions to science and math but Persia itself has none. Like the Romans, they were war mongers and Their culture was toxic to science.
notinpersia··on Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
A Muslim Persian, and Baghdad was the melting pot of the world at that time. It’s like saying a German physicist in Princeton, NJ, which is to say that America not Germany was the place where the work was valued and promoted. Likewise, Alkhawarizmi was educated in Baghdad (not in Persia) and wrote his book on Algebra in Arabic. He was not educated in Persia and he did not write his book in Farsi.

If we put ethnicity ahead of national origin America can’t claim anything to its name. Period.

notinpersia··on Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
Wrong on Algebra’s origin. Often people will say Persia but it was in Ancient Greece and Baghdad. And the latter is not Persia and was certainly not under Persian occupation during the time of Alkhawarizmi (who is also credited for the invention of the algorithm or at least it was named after him.) The original title of his book that coined the term Algebra is Al Jabr wal Muqabala (casting and equation)

Just Google it:

where was algebra invented?

https://www.google.com/search?q=who.invented+algebra&ie=UTF-...