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    9 months ago

    Fair point, let’s acknowledge the preparation and research that goes into something like this. While the Pico may have performed the decryption in less than a minute, there were days and weeks of labour leading up to that.

    A stage magician will pull a rabbit out of a hat in less than a minute, but the audience must never see the effort of the performance. Too often, for the sake of brevity and a catchy headline, journalists tend to make every slightly technological performance sound like a magic trick.