Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To : MRO
From : Arelor
Date : Wed May 14 2025 05:59 pm
Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: MRO to Arelor on Wed May 14 2025 02:18 pm
> we have no true undestanding of the technology that world govts have or even
> really good private professionals. maybe what you think is the height of
> security can be defeated in minutes. There's no way of knowing, except for
> past examples of where people thought they were secure, but caught.
>
> now i'm not a criminal nor do i think any of us are criminals, but still, if
> you think you're secure on a world wide network of computers, you're
> fooling yourself.
This is known as the Nirvana fallacy. The idea that if a solution is not 100% accurate or bullet proof it has to be discarded is a gross approach to life in general.
You most likely don't need to best the NSA at the game of using encryption so good that they can't break it using pre-cracked primitives. And even with all the power of the mighty USA it took them 10 years to grab Bin Ladem - that is right, it took them ages and after years of searching they discovered he was in his home :-P So I think it is prety safe to assume you can throw commercial dataminers, online harassers and kiddie hackers off-balance using widely available techniques which, for domestic users, are the threats they should be assessing in their models.
By the way, perfect informational security is mathematically possible and you can actually deliver a message you encrypt using pen and pencil through a compromised computer, and it will be uncrackeable by any machine no matter how arbitrarily advanced it is. This is certainly not used for public Internet activity but it has been known to be used in the wild when it mattered, so there is that.
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