] The agency best known for protecting presidents and other
] high officials is tying together its employees' desktop
] computers in a network designed to crack passwords that
] alleged criminals have used to scramble evidence of their
] crimes.

The Secret Service is just now setting up a distributed crypto cracking network. Frnakly, you would think they'd have a much more sophisticated hardware based approach, and that they would have done this a long time ago.

DNA Key to Decoding Human Factor (washingtonpost.com)