• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    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?

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    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.

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      10 months ago

      That’s the best part, it can never really “pay off.” It can only mitigate. Hardly seems worth it to me. Alas.

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          10 months ago

          I personally am only worried about data loss, not data theft. But I do take privacy relatively seriously nonetheless.

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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        10 months ago

        I run Gentoo.

        It’s made my fundamentals stronger.

        It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.

        Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.

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            10 months ago

            I don’t know the size in bytes, haven’t cared much about it for some time now. It also very much depends on the definition of minimal. My minimal != your minimal.

            I’m referring to use flags, which allow me to not have a bunch of features I don’t use compiled to begin with. Less code - fewer headaches.

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    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.”

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      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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        10 months ago

        Is it a proved theorem that quantum computers dont have an advantage for AES, or is it just unkown?