From /r/fedora over on 
I work in cybersecurity.
Nation state hackers from any country don’t give a fuck about random Joe#47492.
Not sure how true this is but cybersecurity guy at my last job told me that basicly nothing will keep you safe from a determined and capable state actor, but the vast majority of threats actually come from random people out for a buck.
That’s exactly what it is.
You forgot about the bots, checkmate cybersecurity employee. I am all of the hackers.
specifically calls out enemies of the US
Seems like a normal human to me 🤖
90% of “hacking” is just calling someone up and pretending to be their bank and asking to confirm their bank details, including their password. 100% chance that this dipshit would fall for that if someone actually tried it.
I work IT for a hotel chain, and not a week doesn’t go by without people calling the front desk and trying to get them to install remote access software. Most famously they will name-drop the owner of the hotel chain to try to make it seem legit.
90% of my cybersecurity training seminars for staff is just teaching people not to fall for phising attempts. Not that front desk has any ability to download or install applications anyway because it works far more often than it should.
The good people of europe and the us of a wont ever hack you 🤣
lmao I saw that post yesterday and that exact comment made me roll my eyes. there was another post on r/linux yesterday asking if Deepin linux (Chinese linux distro) is safe and all the comments are some variation of “It’s CHINESE so you know it’s filled with spyware.” There’s even a few comments like “I would rather be spied on by the US than the Chinese.”
btw don’t read that linked thread if you don’t want to be exposed to classic Reddit-style Dunning–Kruger smugness
Logically speaking, American privacy data is useless to China, but it is useful to the United States.
yea I’ve made this point before; even if I assume China is spying on me, wtf are they gonna do with this information? Send me a letter like “hey we saw you looking up a guide on how to beat the last boss of final fantasy 4 you motherfucker.” On the other hand I live in the US and my government has a history of spying on its citizens and using that information to make their life a living hell
Blackmail them into betraying their country, obviously. Especially with all the security clearance they have as a checks blackmail notes cryptocurrency investment specialist.
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Aren’t encrypted files like stupid-easy to crack if you have direct access to them? Also store your passwords on the cloud what a GREAT idea!
Aren’t encrypted files like stupid-easy to crack if you have direct access to them?
Since when? Nobody would bother using it if it was that easy to crack, especially full disk encryption like LUKS on Linux, the whole point is to keep someone with direct access to the data from using it
Like, maybe the NSA could do it, but something tells me that US agencies are not in most redditors’ threat models lol
Though of course, the good ol’ “hit him with this $5 wrench” method is probably the most likely weakness of any encrypted system lmao
Also store your passwords on the cloud what a GREAT idea!
Yeah, considering that online password safes have been attacked before, it makes it especially funny that the person who is so scared about spooky scary Asian hackers would suggest using one of those when it’s a far more likely target than some random nobody’s personal machine lmao
Since when? Nobody would bother using it if it was that easy to crack
If you know a string in the original you can just throw every key at it until the string shows up, there’s a VERY good chance that’s the key.
“Just” throw every key at it? Isn’t that just a typical brute-force attack? That’s hardly what I’d call an “easy crack”, it’s why I said it isn’t realistic for anyone who isn’t the NSA, because brute-forcing something like this with a reasonable key length would take more than anyone’s lifetime unless you have one of the best supercomputers in the world (and even then, it’s not a guarantee depending on the key length)
It’s why people pretty much exclusively talk about other potential vulnerabilities instead when they’re discussing cracking full disk encryption, like the aforementioned “hit him with a wrench until he tells us the password” lol
It is brute force but you only have to scan a fraction of the data which makes it blazing fast. Unless your password is 30+ characters it isn’t going to take all that long, especially if you vaguely remember things such as the password length and if it contains certain numbers or not.
I’m sorry, but do you have a source for it being that fast? I haven’t seen any mention of that anywhere else, at least when it comes to this area of encryption
You also don’t specify what kind of hardware would be needed to make that fast, how fast you’re thinking, or even what type of encryption you’re talking about, all of which are pretty important
I’m not sure this fact would make much of a difference here anyway, because it’s not like you’re ever scanning the entire disk in the first place, you’re trying to decrypt a specific string in the header in a specific place even if you’re just unlocking it normally, and if that really was so insecure, it would be pretty well known and nobody would ever use it
First time seeing this, can you elaborate and post some sources?
aha, yay! I found it. https://youtu.be/tpoPdlBr_Gk
This video doesn’t prove that “encryption” is fast to crack, at all. The first part is literally just about trying millions of most commonly used passwords and the second “crack” relies on an insecure password. Also anyone who stores their most sensitive data in a ZIP file on Windows is doing it completely wrong. There are much better options than ZIP plus Microsoft likely already knows your password before you’re done encrypting your files because Windows probably key logged it.
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With an alphabet of 50 characters, there’s 15 billion 6 character passwords, and 250 quintillion 12 characrer passwords; that’s anything but fast
