The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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i am wondering if it is worthwhile for me to be a’scairt for y’all.
as for me, i am unhackable. well, except for LOT, i guess,
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I guess that even using a quantum computer it would take a few thousand years to break aes 256 key.
you’re basing this assumption off what exactly? CPUs/GPUs today aren’t quantum computers. They’re significantly slower in the types of math cryptography requires, which is why crypto works.
Qbits aren’t bound by the same constraints.
I’m basing it on an article I read a couple of years ago. I’ll try to find it but it doesn’t matter, I don’t know shit about encryption, so I’m not sure if I should even speculate, really.
♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I guess that even using a quantum computer it would take a few thousand years to break aes 256 key.
you’re basing this assumption off what exactly? CPUs/GPUs today aren’t quantum computers. They’re significantly slower in the types of math cryptography requires, which is why crypto works.
Qbits aren’t bound by the same constraints.
I’m basing it on an article I read a couple of years ago. I’ll try to find it but it doesn’t matter, I don’t know shit about encryption, so I’m not sure if I should even speculate, really.
How can you not be sure you should speculate? It’s been required here for years!
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I’m basing it on an article I read a couple of years ago. I’ll try to find it but it doesn’t matter, I don’t know shit about encryption, so I’m not sure if I should even speculate, really.
i gave you the link to the actual experts that are tasked with maintaining what little trust we can rely on. NIST are the standard bearers.
“NIST constantly looks to the future to anticipate the needs of U.S. industry and society as a whole, and when they are built, quantum computers powerful enough to break present-day encryption will pose a serious threat to our information systems,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Laurie E. Locascio. “Our post-quantum cryptography program has leveraged the top minds in cryptography — worldwide — to produce this first group of quantum-resistant algorithms that will lead to a standard and significantly increase the security of our digital information.”
Now the post I specifically responded to above, about the government regulations. The reason they all ‘suspiciously match word for word’ is likely because NIST believes the work they’ve done will stand up to 34 qbits worth of computing power is my informed guess. Anything above that they’re not sure about, yet. Meaning, the language came from NIST.
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CCC | Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation
Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.
It’s been common knowledge for years that SMS isn’t safe. Why do banks and major tech companies still push it?
“Add your phone number to avoid being locked out of your account!”. No you irresponsible and ignorant cunts.
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As a tech demo vid, the above fails pretty hard in an amusing way.
First there’s the obvious cut to not show how long it took Gemini to work out the answer to the question.
Second there’s the way they sped up the footage to not show how slow the gimped robot moved (but somehow made it look slow despite that.)
Third there’s the pained look of sadness on the engineer’s face in the video thumbnail:
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The company I work for is affected by this:
Computers crashing and then can’t reboot. People where I work have been told to attempt to boot in safe mode and, if that fails, BYOD (use their own PCs). I’m a contractor so already use my own laptop and I wouldn’t put that shit on my machine even if I’d heard of it before today.
I’d hate to be a CrowdStrike employee right now.
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Maybe don’t use Microsoft for critical infrastructure? The world has gone crazy.
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Also, don’t use Texas software in your critical jobs? They are used to turning power off whenever…
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Also, don’t use Texas software in your critical jobs? They are used to turning power off whenever…
Their inferior electrical grid is how they stick it to the man and let ‘em know that Texas could secede if they wanted to!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I’d hate to be a CrowdStrike employee right now.
I hate to be a Crowdstrike shareholder right now.
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To be honest, I was expecting a worse reaction, but we’ll see when the market opens. I’m not selling, though.
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CrowdStrike Says Global IT Outage Impacting Windows PCs, But Mac and Linux Hosts Not Affected
A widespread system failure is currently affecting numerous Windows devices globally, causing critical boot failures across various industries, including banks, rail networks, airlines, retailers, broadcasters, healthcare, and many more sectors.
The workaround to break the infinite boot cycle on affected Windows machines involves manually booting into safe mode, navigating to the CrowdStrike directory, and deleting the system file that caused the problem.
They can’t roll out a fix remotely and the place I work has over 10k employees spread across timezones all over the world. What a headache.
Edit: at least there is a fix. I can’t imagine the size of the lawsuits if they actually bricked all those PCs. The disruption to business would be horrendous.
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This is just AI training for the eventual war against humans.
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Well now I’m conflicted:
several rail networks over the world have ground to a halt.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501525799/worldwide-windows-outage-hits-trains-planes-and-banks/
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The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!
The office watches you shave in the morning?
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Lol, this is their website:
