Spyke
programming.dev

I once had to work with a government agency that insisted they generate and provide my private key.

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8ace40reply
programming.dev

I'm migrating millons of encrypted credit cards from one platform to another (it's all in the same company, but different teams, different infra, etc).

I'm the one responsible for decrypting each card, preparing the data in a CSV, and encrypting that CSV for transit. Other guy is responsible for decrypting it, and loading it into the importer tool. The guy's technical lead wanted me to generate the pair of keys and send him the private key, since that way I didn't have to wait for the guy and "besides, it's all in the same company, we're like a family here".

Of course I didn't generate the key pair and told them that I didn't want to ever have access to the private key, but wow. That made me lose a lot of respect for that tech lead.

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I know one municipal agency that does the same...

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lemm.ee

Probably also whatsapp chat, imessage, and other proprietary encrypted messaging apps out there.

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unalivejoyreply
lemm.ee

Many chat apps actually use the Signal protocol for end to end encryption. This includes WhatsApp, Google Messages (RCS), Facebook Messenger, and Skype. iMessage doesn't seem to use it.

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pawb.social

oh, red flag for facebook, that makes sense.

but then if you care about privacy why touch anything Facebook has made at all?

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But we also can't check their process since they are closed source. Also, if they can decrypt in the browser or proprietary app, then they can still read your messages. Browser is vulnerable to other attacks.

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That's not even Nothing Chats' biggest problem: it's that it gets completely MITM'd by going onto some mac mini in some server farm somewhere.

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I love seeing ads touting "military grade" things, it basically means...it probably isn't worth buying.

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It's encrypted by changing the font to windings and making the text colour white before sending.

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At least it has one-to-one E2EE and straight upgrade from vk.

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lemmy.world

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow.... The data are encrypted

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CoggyMcFeereply
lemmy.world

Correct according to whom? The word has a long history of being used with a singular verb. The dictionary indicates it is usually used with a singular verb. Only a small number of people insist on trying to override this.

Who cares if it is plural in Latin? Once something moves into a new language, it’s not beholden to the old language. We don’t use a plural verb with “spaghetti”. Germans borrowed the word “party” from English and they pluralize it as “partys” — they don’t need to follow our rules for what is now also their word.

Don’t give in to these people who claim that “data” is supposed to be plural. They are treating a personal preference as a fact.

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To be fair, German (and other languages) borrowing from Italian is a whole can of worms, but you're right: Borrowed words don't need to follow all the declination or conjugation roles from their original language.

See also: Two espressos. One zucchini.

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feddit.nl

So there's like a talking goose and your first thought is to criticize it on grammar?

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