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/dev/random: The Internet of Things

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Robert Ferrell

As you read this, I will be a retired US federal government special agent, a job that I have for the most part studiously avoided mentioning over the past eight and a half years in these pages as a condition of being permitted herein to abide. I worked for the Department of Defense, which should really be called the Department of Unbridled Spending Except When it Comes to Employee Welfare, but that’s a story over scotch and soda, or rather several scotch and sodas leading to straight scotch.

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October 2014, Vol. 39, No. 5
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