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Comment Re:No [Or I hope not?] (Score 1) 64

Could, may, etc. does not make for useful predictions. And while resilience to hardware failure sounds nice, the things degraded by ageing are the higher-power elements, like com line drivers. These give you full-chip loss and they are relatively homogenous in effect, i.e. they will take out almost all your hardware in a relatively short time.

On the minus-side, LLM results look less and less valuable every day as actual research (not just gut-feelings and hype) starts to roll in.

Comment Re:Do not trust "quantum safe" encryption (Score 1) 34

In theory, your professor was right. In practice, not so much. The thing is theory requires perfect proofs. Practice only "good enough" ones. (We will ignore that the one-time-pad is mathematically proven secure, because it has little practical relevance...)

So that state of things is that ElGamal has a security proof relying on an unproven assumption that is very likely true. RSA is much weaker on the theory side and current block ciphers or crypto-hashes are even weaker on the proof side.

As to QC, the problem is that effort seems to scale exponentially with qbit numbers and (!) computation length. That means there are not very large sizes of computations they will never scale to. And, for example, doing RSA 40960 (i.e. 10x larger than the larges typically used today) is not that much of a problem. The second problem is that there is no quantum computation in existence that actually conclusively proofs it even works. The theory may well turn out to be a tiny bit inexact and then everything fails. And "quantum insecure" does not matter one bit if the machine for it cannot be built.

As to QC algorithms, block ciphers are safe, hash functions are safe, some other things may be as well. The reason is the compute mechanism cannot really break them (half bit length for block-ciphers, for example, still completely infeasible to attack if that is 100 bits remaining or so).

Comment Re: You know it kind of bugs me (Score 1) 112

Nobody is buying a vanilla android phone and using it as delivered to not use any Google services. If they want that they are at least reflashing, if not buying a phone with an alternate android on it... Which moto claims they will soon offer. Not holding my breath though

Comment Re:It's purchase time (Score 1, Flamebait) 12

The U.S. Department of Justice can now set up a cutout and try to buy that data as part of a criminal investigation and sting operation.

Instead they will buy that data as part of an investigation in to who's getting abortions. You forgot who's running this country, they're not interested in catching criminals. That's difficult and expensive compared to declaring victory.

Comment He's always been a piece of shit and always will b (Score -1, Troll) 60

Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, [...] One goal of space exploration is to move polluting industries off Earth, said Bezos, whose Blue Origin aims to compete with trillionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX in rockets.

Space exploration, which is *checks notes* much better done by automated systems less fragile than us meatbags. Space manufacturing, same. So he waves around an irrelevant distraction and we're supposed to suck on it? We're not that fucking stupid, Temu Lex Luther.

Comment Re: You know it kind of bugs me (Score 1) 112

It may be that you define their pre-installed apps as not crapware, but that's a judgement call, not a statement of technical fact.

Oh no! You can't remove... *checks* the app for moto actions, and an app for notifications!

What I'm talking about is bundled apps like Faceboot. They can be removed.

You don't even buy a Moto phone unless you want Moto actions, so yeah it's a judgement call, but if you already made the call to buy Moto, then you've already made the other call as well.

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