JuxtaposedJaguar

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[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Thank you for interjecting.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The data block would be modified but the signature of that block can’t be recomputed without the key used to sign it

Isn't that also true of an encrypted checksum, though? For some plaintext block q there is a checksum r, but the attacker can only see and modify the encrypted q (Q) and encrypted r (R). How any change to Q would modify q (and R to r) can't be known without knowing the encryption key, but the attacker would need to know that in order to keep q and r consistent.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not a cryptographer (so maybe this is wrong), but my understanding is that although it's possible to modify the cipher text, how those changes modify the plaintext are very difficult (or impossible) to predict. That can still be an attack vector if the attacker knows the structure of the plaintext (or just want to break something), but since the checksum is also encrypted, the chances that both the original file and checksum could be kept consistent after cipher text modification is basically zero.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In exchange, FF uses Google search by default. So they're also getting direct value from the deal.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The classic gonewild is a bit sexist, though. They say it's for porn of all sexes, but male posts get buried. It's fine to be female-only, but then just say that.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I vaguely remember the advice actually being to leave it running but disconnect it from the internet. Although maybe hard disconnect the backups if you can.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The real problem is the government not protecting consumers from such predatory business practices. It's almost certainly not legal, and if it is then it shouldn't be. After 3-4 companies are absolutely destroyed, companies will stop doing it.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I still enjoyed the first movie.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My biggest problem with The Matrix is where the machines are getting the food from to feed the humans. You need a continuous supply of food to support continuous energy conversion; that energy isn't being created from nothing. Normally that comes from the sun photosynthesizing plants (which then works its way up the food chain), but with no sunlight then plants can't grow. They say they feed the liquified remains of dead humans to the living ones, but even if digestion were 100% efficient (which it definitely isn't), the amount of usable "food" would constantly decrease until there's nothing left.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

...Because no one else wants to write my documentation.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

There was a thread about that on c/selfhosted a few weeks ago. Created by a particular wild-cat-inspired sysadmin, I might add.

But on a more serious note, the interactions between a sysadmin and their servers (that they have enough responsibility for to be able to name) are much more intimate than the interactions between a dev and their variables. The server names also exist in a much larger namespace, so they need to be more unique.

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Ever since we found out that Grindr has been tracking their users' locations at all times and then selling that data to private companies, Grindr has been dead to me.

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