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The 2013 Middle East cold snap refers to the winter storm that hit the Middle East region in December 2013. The storm has been called Alexa by various media outlets and has caused mayhem to millions of poor and displaced people across the region especially to the refugees of the Syrian conflict.
Events by country
Egypt
Egypt's capital Cairo witnessed rare snowfall (mostly graupel) on Friday December 13 that the local media claimed to be the first in 112 years and night temperature is expected to drop as low as .
Israel
Jerusalem was paralysed by its fiercest snowstorm in years, with i...
There is a person who wants to establish a system which allows her/him to publish texts anywhere and make it verifiable that s/he is the true origin of that text. Only the first message is not verifiable but will establish the system.
Example:
"Hi, I am Mrs X and I am going to whistle you some ...
I use Check Point Full Disk Encryption, but hope that this question can be answered generally. Is it possible for me to get, or extort, my own 256-bit AES key? By the way, I don't use any special password for the decryption itself, so this key must be based on my Windows login password alone (w...
