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gfosco
on Dec 12, 2019
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SoftRAM 95 (1996)
It was a great scam, and I have no doubt it was totally intentional. They still made money. It was a placebo, and yet people would call in to the QVC show and talk about how much faster their computer is after installing it.
raverbashing
on Dec 12, 2019
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Sounds like a lot of products promising "military encryption" (at least around the 90s/early 2000's)
ygra
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Like Kryptochef ...
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/the_doghouse_...
:)
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