The Arizona recount

@wildgrass said
Is there any chance at all that you've been lied to by people in power who wanted to remain in power and did what it took to convince their supporters that they won an election that they actually lost?

Why did Rudy make all those incoherent arguments in front of judges about this not being about election fraud and not presenting any credible evidence?

That couldn't be true....TRUMP told us it was rigged....
....He wouldn't lie to us, would he?

@moonbus said
same goes for the encryption algorithms Cisco, Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Microsoft use for their messaging services: they should remain proprietary. As soon as they are released to the public, you have a severe security breach in progress.

I'm sorry, but that is exactly wrong. It is a known rule in cryptography that if your encryption relies on the algorithm or implementation remaining secret for its security, it isn't secure at all. It's called Kerckhoffs' Principle. Only the individual keys should need to remain secret.

@shallow-blue said
I'm sorry, but that is exactly wrong. It is a known rule in cryptography that if your encryption relies on the algorithm or implementation remaining secret for its security, it isn't secure at all. It's called Kerckhoffs' Principle. Only the individual keys should need to remain secret.

The FBI attempted to compel Apple to hack its own encryption software, not merely hand over keys (which Apple doesn’t have anyway).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute

@moonbus said
The FBI attempted to compel Apple to hack its own encryption software, not merely hand over keys (which Apple doesn’t have anyway).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute

Attempted and failed, because it doesn't work that way. In fact, I don't know if Apple's encryption is secret, but what the FBI really wanted wasn't the secrets to the existing encryption, but a (presumably secret) backdoor in the encryption. Which is a completely different eay of breaking encryption - from the inside rather than the outside.

@shallow-blue said
Attempted and failed, because it doesn't work that way. In fact, I don't know if Apple's encryption is secret, but what the FBI really wanted wasn't the secrets to the existing encryption, but a (presumably secret) backdoor in the encryption. Which is a completely different eay of breaking encryption - from the inside rather than the outside.

Attempted and failed because Apple refused to comply with the FBI and fought them in court.