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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 410 points 10 months ago
[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 87 points 10 months ago

What if i don't remember my own password?

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 145 points 10 months ago

It says "until" so you'll be having plenty of time to remember it.

[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'il probably have internal bleeding before i remember them

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well in reality they will use waterboarding or some other technique that ensures suffering while not being life threatening. There's actually a great movie called Unthinkable about this.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 23 points 10 months ago

That still doesn’t mean you’re gonna remember it. I forget my master password all the time. Torture would just ensure I’d forget it even worse.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

That's the whole thing with torture. It demonstrably doesn't work, but people who use it aren't the people who're concerned with scientific reality

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[-] Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 10 months ago

yes

there was another crypto kidnapping (also in russia) a few years ago, they tortured him and got all his apes. DeFi, kinda scary

[-] cole@lemdro.id 20 points 10 months ago

give them the duress password gg

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[-] this@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

Feels more and more likely living in the land of freedum right now.

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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 331 points 10 months ago

"Well, we raided his mom's house and confiscated all his cobbled-together e-waste."

"And!?"

"His drives were encrypted. Apparently he 'applied PQC patches to dm-crypt himself', whatever that means. All I know is that it made the guys from NSA scream. There was nothing we could do."

"So we've got nothing?"

"Oh no. He happily gave us both the keyfile and the passphrase."

"So..?"

"No warez, no CSA, no political manifestos or illicit recipes. Not even tax evasion - it's not like he has an income. Just... copyleft source code as far as the eye could see."

[-] piyuv@lemmy.world 138 points 10 months ago

I lol’d at this. But seriously, privacy is a fundamental human right. You don’t need to have something to hide to assert your right of privacy.

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

Yeah the government doesn't understand we don't want you to be sociopaths with the excuse of our safety.

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[-] serenissi@lemmy.world 112 points 10 months ago

copyleft source code is a telltale sign of communism, thus anon can be associated with Big terrorist like the Antifa.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

open source collaborative software is anarchy. Book him

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[-] rirus@feddit.org 21 points 10 months ago

Only Asymetric encryption, like PGP has Problems with Quantum Computers. Symmetric, like AES, used by dm-crypt is not affected by Quantum Computers. It doesn't rely on multiplied big prime numbers or stuff like that.

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

FOSS gang rise up!

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[-] tuckerm@feddit.online 204 points 10 months ago

Linux nerds literally only want one thing and it's fucking the idea that your full disk encryption will pay off one day.

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 94 points 10 months ago

It's when your disk breaks and you can just throw it away without worries.

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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 29 points 10 months ago

It can, but most likely it only would if you're doing illegal shit and get caught. They'd search your place for evidence and FDE could keep them from discovering some things.

But uh, if they got that far into investigating you then you're probably already screwed.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 52 points 10 months ago

Not true at all. Governments regularly raid political dissidents. It's a disciplinary tactic in and of itself. I've been raided for plenty of shit and never been convicted of any crime.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean the average dork not cool people like you (if you're being truthful)

Persons of interest to governments should always be diligent.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

My point is that raids are for the purpose of gathering evidence. The way it usually works is that the state decides they want to criminalise you for something so they search your place for anything they can use to incriminate you—not vice versa, ie they dont already have enough evidence to incriminate you when they plan the raid.

I don't know about a majority of people, but with the rise of the far-right across many countries I think it is a significant number of people who are at risk of this, and I think it's rather short-sighted to assume only a small number of "cool people" are affected (thank you though). Like I am a nobody, I'm not famous, and there are lots of political organisers and militants like me you've never heard of being targeted for their political activities. You don't need to be a Snowden to have some degree of state interest in you, and most state repression (raids, incarceration, arrests, etc) is relatively cheap to dish out willy-nilly.

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[-] kalapala@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

Doesn't need to be a government but just common thiefs getting your computer and selling it to someone who knows what to look for.

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[-] mech@feddit.org 93 points 10 months ago

all the 3-letter agencies pool their resources
billions of dollars are dumped into the project
several years later they manage to decrypt all of this guy's communications
it's nothing but chats about how to encrypt shit

[-] ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 88 points 10 months ago

I'm in this post and I like it.

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[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 81 points 10 months ago
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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

check the IP logs

Its all encrypted? This guy uses VPNs and Tor?

Presuming that Mossad can be topped with a subscription to ProtonVPN or a Tor browser is adorable. Hell, presuming nobody in the intelligence services is familiar with Linux is even more adorable. "We've got everyone at the NSA fooled because we're Arch users". Yeah, sure buddy. What do you think these professional computer nerds are doing in their own free time?

Where do you even think encrypted applications come from?

[-] IronBird@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

most of these security agencies effectiveness is just in the myth's they've built around themselves of actually being effective.

mossad in particular, just has a complete disregard for killing innocents and a really good propaganda wing to suppress all their fuckups.

most killers are not right in the head, they act on pure emotion, they post "i am going kill X" online to their social media of choice the night before going to kill X...it's dumb as shit. that's how low the bar is on utilizing violence

fact is lone wolf threats are practically unstoppable, especially if they have a modicum of competency

this is also why it's said killing gets easier/"first ones the hardest" etc. even if your not some sociopath (which, most people as a whole arent)...once you know and understand just how easy it is to kill people and get away with it...lot of the worlds problems start to look like they have very easy solutions...

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[-] eldain@feddit.nl 71 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, a Linux teenagers power fantasy. Hardened Gentoo and Selinux beats deblobbing btw, noob.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Selinux

Hey, let's not get crazy. I still want to use it for practical things, too. /s

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 66 points 10 months ago

"His fucking kernel is deblobbed too?"

As a noob, I genuinely can't tell if this is real jargon or not

[-] towerful@programming.dev 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's referring to binary blobs. A windows exe might be a binary blob.
These are distributed compiled. Even if the project is open sources, the binary blob might have been generated by a compromised compiler.

This is one of the reasons the XZ Utils compromisation went unnoticed for so long. One of the compressed files used for testing contained malicious code that would be included in the build artefacts (IE, the final compiled binary) under very narrow and specific circumstances.

So "deblobbed" means absolutely everything in the OS was built & compiled on their computer from original source code

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 29 points 10 months ago

Thanks! I wonder if I will ever reach that level of privacy paranoia. At the rate that I'm going, maybe 5 years.

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[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 63 points 10 months ago

12 hours a day on his computer

Those are rookie numbers, he has to get his game up.

[-] halvar@lemy.lol 46 points 10 months ago

Last line should have been "we cant he lives on the street"

[-] 2910000@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

They missed out the firmware in the WiFi adapter

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[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

DOWN BY THE RIVER

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[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 10 months ago

Not a hackerman, but I really don't think that 12yo CPU is much more secure than a modern one.

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[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 10 months ago

The extent some people go to refuse their privacy being stepped on. These people like this are pathetic. /s

BRO JUST LET THEM DO WHATEVER THEY WANT YOU'LL BE FINE AS LONG AS

Y O U H A V E N O T H I N G T O H I D E

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Can't have ring -3 vulnerabilities if your CPU doesn't have a ring -3

[-] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is cute and all, but I'll bet that <country-s-intel-agency> would have other ways to get into your computer.

​ edit: wrong ending bracket

/rant: can we get angle brackets back for god sake?

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

I got into gentoo because it made patching the kernel to hold luks keys in debug registers instead of RAM easier than Arch 😅

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