[ILUG] 16 year-old cracked RSA?

[Conor Wynne]

> There's a long tradition of YS winners finding themselves 
> accused of making outlandish claims, when they in fact said 
> nothing of 
> the sort, and it's some reporter garbling things (usually with a good 
> dose of ridiculous nationalism thrown in, too).

Whatever happened to that yong fella that wrote the superfast
webbrowser, with 
every functionality on the planet built in? 

Did that ever happen? 

> >  seems to rely on using a powerfull computer system to
> >  crunch the numbers.
> 
> Heh. Powerful computer systems are pretty cheap these days.

Absolutely. 

Conor.