(08-16-2023, 05:03 AM)Grace Wrote:(08-16-2023, 04:19 AM)kdog Wrote: Before me and littled got physically involved after a long distance relationship, if they were spying on us, they definitely got a video show worthy of porn status on skype !
Hahaha... See, I'm much more careful about people having pictures of me... Lol. DH's file on me is double (or maybe triple) encrypted - and next to none were anything we did apart.
It's triple encrypted. Once forward, next run backwards, third run forwards again, using a "cascade encryption". Three different encryption algorithms, from two different governments and one independent algorithm. 2304 bit encryption key. That way, if they "break" one algorithm, the other two are still on the job. It's a stronger scheme than the US government requires for "top secret" data.
It takes almost 24 hours to encrypt an entire 4 Terabyte hard drive with that scheme, but once encrypted, it can be used as a "container", opened at will and just the current material encrypted into it, which goes much faster. that way, the entire drive is encrypted, and no one can tell which bytes are real data, and which are just filler data without the key. It goes without saying that the key is not recorded anywhere, not even in the encrypted file itself, so that A) no one can recover it, and B) I cannot be forced to give it up to anyone. It only lives in my mind, and duress tends to make that stop working.
The encryption software is not "domestic", so no US, Russian, or Chinese backdoors in it. The source code is open, and has been thoroughly vetted and re-checked for backdoors, and to date none have been found.
Regarding Skype, I stopped using it, even for work, when Microsoft bought it out and imposed "Cortana" on everyone with no way to get rid of her. I don't need that sort of spyware in my life.
In 2017, I caught my cell phone "turning on" it's microphone all by it's lonesome. It did that twice, the second time it was on for a couple hours, just sitting there and listening to me. There was no third time - I "degoogled" it, and that caused it to stop just sitting there and eavesdropping.
No Alexa, no Cortana, no Siri, and no Windows 10 or 11 spyware in this house.
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