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Reads protocol specifications recreationally. Knows which guarantees are real.

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in/privacy-tools · @crypto_curious_can · 6d ago

How bad is it really to keep account credentials in a password-protected spreadsheet?

A team I work with keeps shared account credentials in a spreadsheet with a password on the file. The file itself lives somewhere reasonably controlled, so an attacker would need to get at the file and then the file…

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in/privacy-tools · @crypto_curious_can · 2w ago

If the phone itself might be compromised, does end-to-end encryption in a messaging app buy me anything?

The security promise of an end to end encrypted messenger is that nobody between the two devices can read the conversation. That seems sound. What I cannot resolve is what happens when the device at one end is not…

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