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Ah. That’s a misunderstanding on my part, and a good news story. Still don’t want to wake up tomorrow and see a published AES break, though.

on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
A MITM doesn’t require decrypting. It just requires telling a convincing enough lie to each side of a conversation that they think they’re talking to the other party. Then you end up encrypting to their key which they can just read. That’s different from breaking the encryption.

Are you sure they can’t decrypt?

No, and none of the state actors who do that kind of stuff will ever tell you. Watch The Imitation Game for a good/bad time and some context.

If you had a break for the modern crypto schemes and published it right now you would shut down all digital commerce, a lot of the spy traffic if not most of it^1^, and nothing could be started back up again until everything was redone from scratch. Best hope would be that the post quantum algorithms^2^ the cryptographers have aren’t succeptible to whatever you did to break the existing algorithms. It’d take a bit to get the software implementations and keys in place, etc. The hardware stuff would take longer.
- [1] The stuff using One Time Pads would still be fine, but its limitations wouldn’t take the place all of all the rest of it.
- [2] The rollout of post quantum algorithms is going on now on a more accelerated schedule than originally planned.
on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago
I’ve been wondering ever since what can they do if they had it?

Ask for pictures of all his other paperwork so they can finish onboarding him at his new job.

on I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Or you use last week’s peanuts bag and contaminate the “not peanuts” hopper that the folks allergic to them use.

on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Where it comes to privacy and security sometimes you just have to be there. I’m aware there was a situation surrounding VeraCrypt and TrueCrypt, but I don’t know which one is the one to use going forward if either of them are.

LibreSSL and OpenSSL and how all that came to be is a good read as well.

on Is there a fork repository? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 Sep 2026
You can’t even show me the right speed limit due a sign on a different road that say 5MPH, when I’m on a 30MPH road, and suddenly you start beeping at me cause I’m going too fast?

Insurance company using police report: “Sorry, your rates are going up because you were going 25MPH over the speed limit. What were you thinking?”

on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Is it really a matter of, I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs to copy everything over to, encrypt, copy it all back? What’s the best (Linux) software for a mass copy task like that to be sure it works correctly?

Yes. If budget isn’t an issue then I would even recommend a whole new rig for the process, and here’s why: there are several Linux distros now that have the option, upon install, to do whole disk encryption where you have to enter your passphrase to get the computer to do anything at all. This is probably the safest, easiest solution available to you. You now have a brand new computer that’s never not been encrypted to copy stuff to. RAM and drives will hurt, but I think most modern processors have cryptographic instructions built in, so it may not take a large processor at all.

The downsides are that it’s a bad time from an economic standpoint to be doing stuff like that, and that you’re eating a large amount of technical stuff all at the same time. If you don’t get it right then you might lose all your stuff.

For me it would mostly be my desktop and my nas.

I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs

Depending on when you started storing data and how long it’s been since you touched your current solution, it might be just a few larger hard drives: backblaze.com/…/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2025/

Go ahead and add up how much storage you’ll need and decide if you’re doing any kind of RAID. I recommend at least a mirrored RAID.

Give us a hint about what RAID you have on the NAS? How much storage used/available?

on Encryption help in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Aug 2026
I agree with your sentiment, and that the world should work like your hypothetical.

how could they possibly ever know

Lawyers doing lawyer stuff. As to why, you said it:

I made mega money and they found out

We’d have to have real lawyers weigh in, but for the most part I think unless you found an undiscovered market then they won’t care. Programming isn’t unique in the respect that the tools you need to do world-changing work aren’t that different between what you might have at home versus a well funded computer science research lab, but you’re much more likely to stumble into a marketable app than you are a quicker FFT.

on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
I don’t get how anyone could EVER enforce a law or agreement or rule that says something I wrote at home on my device on my time is theirs.

Check your employment terms. I’d wager the first step of that is seeing if you have a paper copy. I know I don’t for all the places I’ve worked or acquisitions I’ve been through.

Something like an ALCU or Second Amendment Foundation that focused on nothing but that would be a nice-to-have. I think it overall destroys creativity in the industry.

on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
It’s depressing to be wasted pointless effort in a bureaucratic corporate nightmare.

And depending on the details of your employment, if you code for fun, on your own time, at home, using your own equipment, the company still owns it.

on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
There’s literally nothing for detectors to go on anymore.

It’s harder for users as well. Even youtubers I’ve followed for a while have started using the recipe of having a ridculous thumbnail such as “WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS” with an arrow pointing to something. After a couple of times of catching me because I own one of the things the arrow is pointing to (and then watching a 10:01 long video not talking about the item in question) I decided not to fall for it. I noticed that discovery of a new channel got hard. They’re all following the recipe now since I guess youtube mandates it, so it’s the same bas relief thumbnails that seem like they pose a question and a video that doesn’t answer it. We’ll end up with a new Betteridge’s Law and the resource youtube once was is lost forever and we’ll stand around making dumb faces thinking how we’re all getting ripped off…

on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026