Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys

Re:Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys by crazydoggers on Saturday November 13, 2021 @12:15PM (#29211376)

Thanks for making this point clear. I think a lot of people have been clinging to the idea that there is such a thing as privacy with online public services.

The parents quote I think is illustrative

> But for the “average person,” security does equal privacy, or should, so they find systems that could potentially expose their identity to be “insecure.”

And I’m not trying to pile on here, because I sympathize with that sentiment of “should”. But I think the two issues that make that never a real possibility are 1) privacy is actually a harder problem to solve than security and 2) companies aren’t incentivized to provide privacy.

Anything you provide online should by default be assumed to end up public, and as much as we might not want that, we all really need to assume that.

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Re:Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys by b3morales on Saturday November 13, 2021 @12:53PM (#29211695)

They are complementary, though -- in fact, intertwined. You cannot have durable privacy without the ability to selectively secure information. And many security mechanisms (especially those that are digital) rely on a secret, which is sort of the essence of privacy.

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