# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (October 3, 2013)

The log contained minimal substantive discussion, but these points emerged:

* A user shared a link to sha256crypt passwords from bitcointalk.org, potentially related to security research or a data breach.

* A link to Lavabit court orders was shared (http://cryptome.org/2013/10/lavabit-orders.pdf), likely related to the encrypted email service that shut down rather than comply with surveillance demands.

* There was a brief discussion about Intel Haswell processors, noting their improved power consumption and performance compared to previous generations, with users recommending looking for i7-4xxx series chips.

* A user mentioned discovering that Tencent (a major Chinese internet company) had been scanning ports and crawling their residential IP address where they had been running a Flask web server on an unusual port.

* Several academic papers were requested through paperbot, primarily focused on machine learning topics including support vector networks.

* Users briefly discussed the durability of ThinkPad laptops versus other models, with one user sharing an anecdote about their ThinkPad surviving being hit by a truck.