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2026-02-13 13:18 UTC

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Reminds me that I sometimes wonder who created this idea that we should encrypt everything, because as more and more time passes it more feels like a way to make people feel safer than they are, and weaken protocols. If not entirely make things actually unsafe for people if it ends up with verifiable signatures which can't end up plausibly deniable (one reason why I have rotation on my dkim keys).

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  • @lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-02-13 23:35

    @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Everything should be using key-addressed overlay networks. (Or just key-addressed networks, if GNUnet reaches completion at some point and is implemented in hardware, I suppose.) The notion that addressing a peer doesn't *inherently* mean the communication is encrypted is the problem. At that point, the notion "if I'm sending the message to a public room it's not private" and "if I'm sending a message to a specific person it's private" is very simple to grasp for users.

    Open ##2552070

  • @MisuseCase@twit.social 2026-02-17 12:38

    @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange >> because as more and more time passes it more feels like a way to make people feel safer than they are, and weaken protocols. I don’t know about that, but it’s at the point where you can slap “E2EE” on something for branding purposes and people don’t think about other factors in secure software/services at all. Or what E2EE really means, for that matter. I don’t blame them though. Most people are not cybersecurity nerds, nor can they be.

    Open ##2552071