[billpatrianakos]

"The New York Times and Markhoff should both be ashamed for publishing such a misleading article, particularly the title"

Yeah, it's definitely misleading but that's the news these days. They have an audience and it's pretty broad. So yeah, to us this is misleading but when you take the audience of the Technology section of the NYT as a whole you really can't expect them to understand anything more complex than the explanation they gave. They're obviously writing for the lowest common denominator here. It sucks but this is nothing new for any publication when it comes to reporting on subjects few people really have a deep understanding of. I don't think this is such a terribly misleading article on the whole. Had this been published in a cryptography journal or some really specialized publication then I'd see where shame would come into play.