What do you mean the space for digital is unlimited and infinite? There’s finite resources on the planet. 2048-bit RSA is not getting brute-forced in our lifetime (without quantum). And if you are talking about password strength, all of what you mentioned should be factored in. Take the combined compute of all GPUs of the world, factor in Moore’s law with a 50 year horizon, and figure out how strong your password should be. I know some people use 128 bits of entropy but I think 100 bits is plenty. Use a word-based passphrase for easy memorization. Or just use a hardware key.

Now I’d love to know how to calculate what level of security is enough for physical methods. Anything rigorous?

I believe the UK too

I remember hearing the opposite, that strikes with a set duration were ineffective because management could just wait it out…

Second this one. I watched it months ago and still think about it. Be careful when you look it up. Tons of spoilers everywhere. At most just watch the official trailer (don’t read the comments) and decide if you want to watch it. It’s about a son with schizophrenia and his mother

how many countries has Signal pulled out of so far? I keep hearing about it

gp comment knows that, they were saying that sometimes such authenticity can be excessive. For example crooked teeth was also much more common back then, but we aren’t rallying for studios to start adding CGI crooked teeth

If they got their hands on a machine would they be able to replicate it? If it was such a massive advantage I imagine they would just take one by force, I mean look at how the US just took out two national leaders

I’m surprised they can’t just smuggle the chip designs and factory designs from Taiwan, they’re so close

We probably just bred them that way. Unmanageable dogs were undesirable and bred out

I think this comment is a good example of why people don’t like physical methods. It just seems so hand-wavy, like homeopathic medicine. How do you judge how well it will work in a given situation? Physical privacy is just dependent on too many unknowns. And privacy techniques for the user have not improved in the past 100 years, meanwhile surveillance and location tracking algorithms for the authorities have progressed.

Digital privacy continues to improve every year. Andbody can use Tor and Monero, and benefit from the research and development behind them. Anybody can audit the tech, and build on top of it. Right now darknet markets are clunky to use, but they definitely feel better than they did 5 years ago, and they’ll keep getting better.

Anyways thanks for engaging in this discussing with me, it definitely helped me explore these ideas deeper.

Keep your nose clean out there, you never know whose gonna be looking in 20 years…

depending on your juridiction, the statute of limitations should save you after 20 years :)

yes, in this case it wouldn’t be obvious. Unless you can figure out a clear way to distinguish between a person who made an account and then started using it with Tor, vs somebody who made an account, sold it on the darknet, and the buyer started using it with Tor

I do it because I know interactions are used for further training, and I’d rather the AIs be trained to be polite

This is testable. Show the panties to a group of people that never grew up in the age where bows were necessary. See if these people like the panties with the bow or without.

I suspect it’s not a skeumorphic thing, but rather just aesthetics. There are probably other ornamentations that work too, like flowers or embroidery

Eloise would probably respond that internalized sexism makes women want the bow as well, because society makes women want what men want…or something like that

You can’t just throw a 30 minute youtube link and expect people to watch it. At least give a gist of your point, and provide the video as extra context/depth.

This is why I just use darknet markets instead. Buying a new account takes only a few minutes, without leaving the house

I mention “anonymous” in the title, and many times in the post, and explained the scenario at the start of the post. It’s true that the mainstream does not need anonymity, but anonymity was clearly the goal of the post.

And I agree that this method alone won’t save you from the feds. It’s just one tool in the arsenal

Regulation means nothing, if the feds want to track people there’s endless strings they can pull. Plenty of evidence online of feds intercepting packages and bugging devices. They can even use illegal means and then use parallel construction.

On the other hand, just because the feds collect a bunch of dsta to be decrypted later, doesn’t mean they actually will. Encryption is very rarely cracked, it’s far more difficult than tracking people down via camera footage. Not to mention, statute of limitations means that even if they crack it 20 years later, the data might be useless by then.

Fact is, I can send some monero to somebody today and know it won’t be cracked within the year. But if I put on a mask and gloves and try to send a letter in the dead of the night, I know there’s still a chance that I’m caught.

There’s a reason why hackers today choose to use crypto and mixers rather than cash. Same reason why the US criminalized tornado wallet. Turns out, Monero and mixers are incredibly effective.

In the case of buying Protonmail accounts, I don’t think it’s obvious that it changed hands, since again, it just looks like the account user started using Tor, nothing more. The use of Tor is suspicious, but so is any anonymous methods. For example, mailing cash to a email provider is also extremely suspicious, given how much effort one is going through to pay anonymously, and thus it may trigger a cop to immediately start reviewing security camera footage around the mailbox. Any type of anonymity is going to raise eyebrows, but buying accounts from the darknet is imo the safest and most secure method.

But being aware of the tradeoffs is important so thanks for sharing

Fair enough. This is why I mentioned that the darknet method was the most reliable method I found. So far it hasn’t failed me