Recent content by AaronGant

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Mine is at 16y, 17 end of November. I remember really hating the idea of have some extra useless software running just to play a game I bought.

If they send you my public key and they send me your public key, we still only have our own private keys, right? Hasn't PGP been doing this for like 30 years? or are we just as the point where the argument is that if you are decrypting the data on a device that isn't offline only then there's...

Ok, yeah, they'll have your login and password information, you've got to send that to login. My understanding was that the text of the e-mail was encrypted client side and proton never gets the key, keeping the data secure. I've not used their service, but I thought the encryption /...

Yeah, I mean I guess if you've compromised all end points then what happens in the middle doesn't matter. I was trying to answer the question about what stops them from keeping encryption keys and just decrypting and storing the plain data. At the time I had thought I answered that correctly.

Maybe I just don't understand, but I thought that if I encrypted something on my end with a private key then logged in and sent the encrypted data that someone couldn't just get my private key because I logged into a website and sent some data that wasn't the private key.

I'm no expert in data encryption, but my understanding of public/private key & end to end encryption is that the people in the middle (eg. protonmail) never hold the keys to unlock the e-mails. The decryption process should only be possible on the recipients end. If all it took to undo...

Difference is one that does so when court ordered only has data from that moment forward, no history to provide. Also it's still an encrypted email service, they can't get your emails from the provider.

I thought that was kind of the point cybereality was making, PCs (running windows / linux / macos) are different than iOS and the methods software is available to them. Valve's store is in the PC market and not iOS, and the differences between the two platforms are enough to maybe make...

Nothing stops 0-day, that's how it's defined, unknown vulnerability that can be exploited. Won't matter how up to date Windows, your router or AV is.

The only time I had a power supply cause damage to anything else was in 2000 or 2001, but back then I bought the cheapest grey box never heard of brands. With good brands the only thing I even hear about now when they start failing is unstable systems, especially when overclocking. I would...

Is that even an impact? That link keeps taking me to a listing calling it a cordless screwdriver. I think it's just a driver. Am I wrong?

So they argue that if the currency is convertible to USD then it's taxable. I'm thinking World of Warcraft here. Since you can buy and sell gold 3rd party, even if blizzard doesn't like it, then it's a convertible currency. So do you have to file capital gains every time you gain money for...

I never said it would get around it, wasn't an idea I had. To clarify: I had meant to quote, in the my original posting one of the people mentioning disconnecting from the internet to get it to install how they wanted. I've heard that is not an uncommon step in various cracks for software...

It's a step that sounds like it should only be necessary if you are trying to avoid activation servers for piracy. Shouldn't be a step required to legitimately use software the way people want.