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Comment author: SilasBarta 11 April 2011 08:15:15PM 0 points [-]

In science, nature is not malicious, but it's not limited in computing power either

Nature's also not very intelligent, as elaborated on here and here.

I explained one historical instance of scientists going through the same process as cryptanalysis in my reply to Nancy.

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