#social 2017-12-18

2017-12-18 UTC
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saranix E2E is good, and important, but here's why I think Double Ratchet is overkill for most applications: the stated advantage over legacy crypto is "forward secrecy" and "cryptographic deniability". These attack profiles only matter for State actors, large corporations, and specifically, those that want to spend a lot of resources targetting an individual. In order to meet that higher level of security...
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saranix ... you need to be very careful not to make any mistakes in your implementation of the Double Ratchet. Odds are, you will. If you do, that advantage is not gained...
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saranix ... therefore, it is a waste of effort to try unless you're certain there is a payoff
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saranix IOW you're doing a ton of work to gain yourself an advantage you might not gain anyway because you'll probably make a mistake that a Big Actor can capitalize on anyway
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saranix just my 2cents
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saranix Ha! Twitter very obviously copying Mastodon with their new "sensitive media" feature. Difference being the Twitter Ministry Of Truth does the moderation vs individual site-runners.
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aaronpk Haven't they had that feature for a while?
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saranix I dunno, just read about it on front page of slashdot. I've never used Twitter, nor any centralized service, nor will I
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aaronpk They apparently launched "sensitive profiles" in March https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/twitter-tests-a-feature-that-warns-users-of-profiles-with-potentially-sensitive-content/
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aaronpk Ah they started experimenting with it in 2011 https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/28/twitter-adds-possibly-sensitive-designation-to-tweets-with-nsfw-content/
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puckipedia yeah, the sensitive content thing has been there a while, you can set a flag in your profile that media you post is sensitive
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saranix "the post must be marked 'sensitive media.' Other users would then see a warning that would allow them to decide whether to view the post." -- come on guys, you know better than to conflate similar sounding features
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cwebber2 aaronpk: are we doing a SocialCG call this week? we didn't say we wouldn't :)
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cwebber2 hey hey BanjoFox :)
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cwebber2 welcome to #social :)
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banjofox >.>
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banjofox Thats funny because I got a "Permission Denied" message LOL
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ajordan cwebber2: Evan still hasn't made it to one, he'd probably appreciate it
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puckipedia hey BanjoFox
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banjofox Greetings!
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ajordan heh, probably should've said hi BanjoFox :)
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banjofox meh. I'm about 7-layers of dip into multitasking :)
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ajordan hah
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banjofox need to start packing. BBL
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