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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001. Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies.

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Robert Reich: “Saving Capitalism” From Itself

John Battelle's Searchblog

From banking to broadband, pharma to agriculture, Reich details subtle market mechanisms that concentrate power and capital into the hands of the “new oligarchs.” – In 2001, the top ten websites accounted for 31 percent of all page views in America, by 2010 the top ten accounted for 75 percent.