• jonne@infosec.pub
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    7 hours ago

    TL:DR: IBM sold machines to the Nazis that they used to track down people to put into concentration camps. It would’ve been harder to do if they had to rely on paper records only.

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      6 hours ago

      Jeez, hard to imagine them not having been paper. Sometimes it’s easy to forget. Kind of like the IRS using computers older than some senators, and that’s saying something.