Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by admax88qqq on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:18PM
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> It becomes worthless for...
So you admit it's not completely worthless at that point only for specific use cases.
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by jiggawatts on Saturday December 09, 2023 @04:51PM
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Sure, it has uses: it can be printed on a T-shirt to teach big media a lesson about the futility of copy protection, etc…
Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by admax88qqq on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:01PM
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Plus it lets people decrypt media encrypted by that key that they might otherwise have been unable to.
So we've established that a "private key" that is no longer private may still have uses to some people, it is not wholly "worthless."
Do you want to revise your earlier statement about the private key in the repo in question? Is it "worthless"? Is it a security problem? Do you know what that key is being used for?
Public-private key pairs only work if the private key is secret. If it’s not secret it doesn’t work.
This is a simple fact of how cryptography works. Or passwords, keys, or any secret like an API key, etc…
If you publish such things on GitHub, they instantly become “not what you’ve labelled it as”.