[Noisebridge-discuss] deep crack announcement .. tax issue/

[Martin Bogomolni]

Perhaps the right place for this machine is to have it kept as a
historical item of value -- at the Computer History Museum in San
Jose.   It did something remarkable, and will be remembered in the
time of Quantum Computing as our best attempt at parallel computing
for a specific task.

What do y'all think?

-Martin

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Announce: Deep Crack offered to NB. Fastest (non-classified) 3DES
>>> cracker.
>
> This makes me happy.
>
>>> Non repurposable. US citizen use only. Claimed value $250k.
>>> Takes a lot of power, six racks worth of stuff, needs a truck.
>
> This makes me sad.
>
> I'd be right behind just having the thing as furniture/talking point,
> to be honest. If there's no power, there's no issue with
> non-US-citizen use, right? And is there anything interesting in the
> way of legitimate research left to do in this space anyway? If we want
> to run demos with it (which we obviously would), we could take some
> care with the legalities while it was running and otherwise enjoy its
> silent hulking presence.
>
> m.
>
>>> (Talk
>>> to Jake)
>>
>> Does accepting such a high-value donation have any tax implications for NB?
>>
>> -Martin
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