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<oriansj>well having only a single bit in each memory chip does have certain advantages when one wants to make certain hardware compromise attacks much harder. And the encrypted memory techniques we previously discussed. <mirai>if space is of no concern why not core memory? <mirai>you can recruit typically non-techies to the cause as well (the knitting community) <matrix_bridge><Jeremiah Orians> Well even if labor is free, copper wire, electricity and magnetic cores are not <muurkha>mirai: the reason nobody had core memory before 01945 wasn't that they didn't have enough space; the industrial process of making the necessary square-loop ferrite material requires a fair degree of precision in composition. not that you couldn't do it in your kitchen, but you would have to know a lot <muurkha>and you need some precision instruments to figure out what's wrong when it's not working