brie

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[–] brie@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Proton gives data to governments if requested. Why are you trying to shill it?

[–] brie@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pedantic types always mention that secure is only relevant in the context of a particular threat model. The elderly can use hardware authentication like those RSA devices or ubikey. Unfortunately, this is expensive, and banks don't believe there's demand for that. Would you switch banks for this feature?

[–] brie@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What about people who only have one device? Kids, elderly, people with only work computer.

[–] brie@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Simply paying is not sufficient. You need to be a telecom company, or a researcher afaik.

In what world would the US gov care to get into your bank account? Or your Facebook account when it's already tightly controlled?

[–] brie@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Proton is already used for identity management: OTP via email. They'll implement OAuth if there's enough demand for it. A company's purpose is to be profitable, ethics side is largely irrelevant.

Many countries already have digital government ID: Australia, Estonia, Russia.

[–] brie@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Watch the video again to see how hard it was for Derrick to get access. He got it via his telecom/academia researcher contact.

[–] brie@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

S7 will be retired or extended with access control. TOTP apps don't work for edge cases like broken phone. Dedicated token devices get lost. SMS will continue being the main solution for 2FA.

[–] brie@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Not true. SMS is encrypted in 3G, LTE, 5G. Block cyphers like Kasumi and A/9 are used. SMS is reasonably secure, because it's hard to infiltrate telecom systems like S7

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