Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (2015)

This is from 2015.

The title is a tiny poem.

> even though a 280 attack will break somebody's AES-128 key out of a batch of 248 keys.

Yeah, "somebody's", but what does the average somebody have that's worth cracking their encryption over? It seems to me that most cryptanalysis threat models would be very specifically targeted: what is the President saying on his secure line? Where are the submarines being dispatched? What are the corporate earnings or fed rate decisions going to be?

Trawling thousands of encrypted connections and cracking one or two is a pretty cool feat,but probably not valuable enough to recoup the costs or yield anything of extraordinary value.