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Plenty of blunders are easy to avoid, but for some reason they just keep on happening over and over and over. Why is that???
by asdf on Tue Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:12:15 AM EST
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Is this case, I'm going to guess it's the difficulty of transmitting OTPs.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:34:17 AM EST
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The short answer is the average person is a nincompoop.

The super-duper Enigma 2 was cracked after an operator sent the exact same long message twice and in succession using the exact same key and the exact same rotor set-up.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Aug 20th, 2013 at 10:59:34 AM EST
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