Interesting Links for 17-12-2012

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• Jack Hart obituary | Politics | The Guardian
  'Signals specialist who fought Thatcher's ban on unions at GCHQ'
  (tags: interesting politics Westminster UK unions Thatcher rights )
• cryptography - Why not use larger cipher keys? - IT Security
  '[this implies] brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.'
  (tags: posttofacebook ye cannae break the laws of physics ye clever schneier physics computers cryptography amusing )