Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16

Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by sangnoir on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:28PM (#39197456)

No, but I bet a dollar that NSA isn't just going to collectively fold hands and say "These schemes and implementations are too good and too secure for us to break. We'll ignore the meta data, network analysis, side channels and our data centers that can store 2 days worth of internet traffic; we'll give up and focus on defensive security only"

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Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by mirekrusin on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @07:45AM (#39203104)

Your argument applies equally to any initiative ever made by humans that mentions "internet". Yet it appears quite few things exist on the "internet". We do have cryptography with good guarantees available.

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Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by sangnoir on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:43PM (#39208351)

My argument is not that those things don't exist - its just that to my knowledge, I never heard of any real-life implementation that's guaranteed to be NSA-proof[1] - you're welcome to offer a counterexample.

1. Your fancy encryption scheme is pointless if your plaintext can be acquired at either endpoints, of if a bug in the implementation leaks data. The security of the whole matters a lot more than the individual parts as attackers go for the weakest link.

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Re:Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban soc... by mirekrusin on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @06:37PM (#39211051)

You're not transmitting sensitive information in the first place.

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