No, they’re public servants

You don’t so it to protect you. You do it to protect others. Your encrypted content could be a list of sources for a journalist. Or email correspondents.

Wut. Is the competition not enough data for you? This is how we got AES.

Can you name a single popular language where Argon2 isn’t implemented in a stamdard library?

Post his social security number online, next to a scan of his photo ID. He’ll realize the importance of privacy in a few months.

Where does the salt get stored?

The problem is quotes, not spaces and ampersands

Thats the least of your worries with Ring. Put that shit straight into the bin.

Salted passwords are not recommended anymore. Better to use a memory hard key derivation function designed for passwords, like Argon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon2

Open a bug report

I’m going to join OP’s company next and say I can’t use signal because phone companies. Then they’ll upgrade to Wire or Matrix

Its a good practice to have a policy, even if its not legally required

I’d rather have a Foss project with a simple privacy policy that clearly says they store nothing than one that has no policy at all

Lots of hand waving in this, but its good for relative comparison

What are the chances that my attempt to thaw gets denied “for my protection”?

Because I’ve gotten locked out if every bank account I’ve ever owned at some point “for my protection” just because I tried to login. The only thing stopping me from freezing my credit is fear that I’ll never be able to thaw it because of these terrible anti-fraud systems that lock me out.

Lol good year for the NSA

The point is to understand the concept of credibility. Who said it matters. Some people have a demonstrated history if credibility. Some people have a demonstrated history of incredibly.

Me? I thought the class was dumb because it was super obvious. But I’m inherently skeptical, and I do think its important to have for most people who don’t think critically.

I can’t remember the details, but I suspect it was things like who wrote it? Are the claims cited? Who are they citing? Is it peer reviewed? What is the author trying to convey? What type of language is being used? Who is the target audience? Etc

Is this not how people have been making deep fakes already? What’s different here?

I had a detecting propaganda workshop when i was a kid in a school in the US. Its not mandatory everywhere, but we do teach these things

And a third penis