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Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

This is incoherent bullshit.

You’re choosing to pretend it’s nothing so you can dismiss legitimate criticism.

An engineer hearing about some novice trying to build a plane using difficult methods that only one or two companies with immense expertise has succeeded at would be correct to assume that plane would be unsafe.

A doctor hearing about a tiny clinic attempting treatments that only big medical research facilities have pulled off are correct to assume they’re charlatans.

A cryptographer hearing about somebody attempting to build E2EE using methods that very few are capable of implementing correctly and without having the expertise on hand are correct to call that snakeoil.

Cryptography is INFAMOUSLY complex. E2EE is infamously difficult to make easy.

There’s a reason almost everybody copies Signal’s protocol, and that everybody else who does it in-house keeps having vulnerabilities.

Multi user key management specifically is wildly complex.

Twitter/X has only displayed signs of LACKING the necessary expertise.

To pretend that’s wishful thinking from me just reveals how little you care about expertise.

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