[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia-X-Files

[Andrew Gray]

On 10/05/06, Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've got a feeling that the factorisation of an RSA number (either [[RSA-200]]
> or [[RSA-640]], I forget which) was scooped by Wikipedia last year; or at
> least, I couldn't find any public announcement that predated it at the time.

We beat the media by a day or so on the death of... damn, I completely
forget. Famous feminist who died last year. We removed the claim,
though, since we couldn't get a source until the story was confirmed
on the Monday morning...

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- Andrew Gray
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