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minus-square@Feathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoIf he knew, do you think he’d be wasting time talking here about it instead of, I don’t know, ransoming millions of user passwords?
minus-square@communism@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish5•3 months agoI like to think that most people would just contact the devs privately to get a fix pushed asap instead of ransoming everyone’s passwords.
minus-square@Feathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoRight, but my point was that there aren’t public bugs in encryption algorithms just hanging around. Asking for those is categorically bad faith.
If he knew, do you think he’d be wasting time talking here about it instead of, I don’t know, ransoming millions of user passwords?
I like to think that most people would just contact the devs privately to get a fix pushed asap instead of ransoming everyone’s passwords.
Right, but my point was that there aren’t public bugs in encryption algorithms just hanging around. Asking for those is categorically bad faith.