When the DoD was deeply involved with SV instead of just purchasing top binned COTS? At that time they basically were operating with hardware that far ahead, but that was always relative to the general consumer, it didn't stop companies from paying insane prices for marginal improvements that only HFTs and research labs would care about. Nobody would have bothered trying to bring something so expensive to the broader market - remember the multi-core games Intel played for years before AMD started knocking bread off their table?
Also, are you implying that the lack of leaked supercomputing documents is evidence of a commercial technological parity, or did I miss a big reveal (totally possible, haven't been paying attention)? Because as I recall he didn't pull a Manning style dump of operations-level intel (regardless of legality) - he instead coordinated with Greenwald to expose illegal strategic programs (and occasionally a debatable legal one that the DNI lied about in the prior news cycle - which was pretty funny). So I didn't expect any leaks about bleeding edge crypto hardware - because most domestic communication wouldn't need space age tech to break (A5/1 has always been hobbled).
When the DoD was deeply involved with SV instead of just purchasing top binned COTS? At that time they basically were operating with hardware that far ahead, but that was always relative to the general consumer, it didn't stop companies from paying insane prices for marginal improvements that only HFTs and research labs would care about. Nobody would have bothered trying to bring something so expensive to the broader market - remember the multi-core games Intel played for years before AMD started knocking bread off their table?
Also, are you implying that the lack of leaked supercomputing documents is evidence of a commercial technological parity, or did I miss a big reveal (totally possible, haven't been paying attention)? Because as I recall he didn't pull a Manning style dump of operations-level intel (regardless of legality) - he instead coordinated with Greenwald to expose illegal strategic programs (and occasionally a debatable legal one that the DNI lied about in the prior news cycle - which was pretty funny). So I didn't expect any leaks about bleeding edge crypto hardware - because most domestic communication wouldn't need space age tech to break (A5/1 has always been hobbled).