irq0

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[–] irq0@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mine keep breaking, can you suggest any strong brands?

 
[–] irq0@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's satire

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's satire

The website itself is clearly satire and the 404 article also mentions it's satire

 
[–] irq0@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

You're right, the tap water isn't completely sterile and still has some contaminants but it's nothing to be super concerned about if you're not regularly shitting yourself after drinking tap water everything is fine

You definitely want some contamination in the form of minerals as they give your water its taste. You can buy a fairly cheap "TDS" meter online which will show you the Total Dissolved Solids. This won't give you a complete picture of what's there but will let you know if your water is more or less "minerally " ( I.e soft or hard )

Outside of that you can look into getting an ICP test which will give you a break down of the exact minerals in your water, depending on the brand they may also test for bacteria but most don't. The ICP still won't pick up on other contamination like PFAS but they're incredibly difficult to remove anyway so it's best not to think about them...

You can also look into installing an RO-DI system which will filter out minerals and other organic compounds like ammonia etc but it won't do anything for bacteria or PFAS. You shouldn't regularly drink de-ionised water though as it strips the minerals out of your body ( like the calcium from your bones ) so you'd have to re-mineralise it.

Your water is totally fine and safe, don't overthink it!

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 57 points 3 months ago

25btc is currently worth $1,717,852

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago

HBO reporter that interviewed Trump a few years back

Be warned, it's extremely painful to watch: https://youtu.be/NmrEfQG6pIg

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I appreciate you taking the time to implement this and answering some questions! I have a follow up question- What's the benefit of using asymmetric encryption here? You're not signing the message ( you probably should imo ) and you don't appear to support sharing encrypted notes ( i.e a user provides one or more additional public keys that a note is encrypted for ). You're basically doing symmetric encryption with the pain of key management

It'd be simpler ( from a user and code perspective )to use symmetric encryption ( something like aes-256-gcm or ChaCha20-Poly1305 for example ) and use key wrapping to avoid encrypting user data directly and you'd have stronger crypto as a result

You're right that PGP is a valid encryption method but it's not very popular in the modern day because it's very hard to get right. Latacora has a great post on the PGP Problemand the Soatok blogs that u/litchralee linked are well worth a read too

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 0 points 6 months ago

I completely agree. I guess you can turn off biometrics if you're in an environment where being forced to unlock your phone is a threat ( airports would be one of those envs for "normal" people ) but most people aren't going to do that

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I don't think this is true. If I open my wallet from the lock screen then cover the front camera and close the wallet app my phone remains locked. Obviously it's a different story if you open the wallet app when the phone is unlocked

That being said, I do have some non-default FaceID settings

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I believe us-east-1 is the default region so it's probably a case of devs not changing their region unless they need to.

Also, 1000s of companies use AWS. In issue in any of their regions is likely to have significant impact on internet services

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 7 points 6 months ago

A shoe horn is still a better spoon than option 3

[–] irq0@infosec.pub 1 points 6 months ago

She's welcome to chose spoon 1

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