• tuckerm@feddit.online
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    6 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.

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    6 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

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    6 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.”

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      6 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.