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AckAttack6710 t1_j1xjfws wrote

Interesting concept. Not sure what good it'd be other than to dick around for a bit, but it's neat.

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bad_at_hearthstone t1_j1yzngx wrote

Anonymously selling drugs perhaps

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Jaredlong t1_j1zldlp wrote

Yeah, create a long enough random string of letters for the note name and it'd act like a type of key encryption. security through obscurity

Edit: To make the literalist pedants happy.

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bad_at_hearthstone t1_j1zm0rl wrote

I don’t think you understand encryption

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SolensSvard t1_j1zrq8e wrote

If you fart hard enough into a speech to text, the phrase that comes out is encrypted. It's just science

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The_Slad t1_j1zt4lv wrote

It literally says that every note is encrypted and the notes title acts as the key.

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TheCharon77 t1_j21zvhp wrote

So the lock to the front door of your house is its address. Got it.

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Jaredlong t1_j205b1q wrote

Jfc, I didn't mean it's literal actual encryption. In terms of the difficulty of someone unintentionally finding the note it's LIKE encryption because they'd need the specific key to find it.

Has your middle school English class not covered similes yet?

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samehaircutfucks t1_j20bz14 wrote

That's not what encryption does. You're referring to security through obscurity. Encryption makes it so even if the note is found, it is unreadable by anyone other than those with the key to decrypt.

Writing in a made up language is closer to encryption than your example.

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MyNameCannotBeSpoken t1_j1y2jg0 wrote

If you and a group made an unusual name, the group could collaborate on a document.

Maybe it was developed pre-Google Docs

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levandula t1_j1y8e48 wrote

> Maybe it was developed pre-Google docs

Their repo is from 2019, whereas Google docs is from 2006.

It’s rather just a novel idea than a real collaboration tool.

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pseudo_su3 t1_j1yw4w7 wrote

Dumping password/credit card breaches is one thing I could see it used for.

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AdriftAtLast t1_j1yug95 wrote

I stumbled across client info and passwords for a Canadian networking company. I deleted everything. It was using a common, short word.

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Elliot_Moose t1_j1z48w2 wrote

Did you inform the company?

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AdriftAtLast t1_j1zhcxm wrote

I didn't want to really look at it too much. I think maybe an employee browsing reddit pasted the wrong info or something. It seemed partial or mistaken instead of some purposeful leak, especially given the passphrase to reach it.

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BeatlesTypeBeat t1_j1zirph wrote

Damn, should have kept it and reported it to the media. Was it Bell? Rogers?

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foggy-sunrise t1_j1yx6vs wrote

High School kids are gonna type in their high school name and write threats on here if it gets big.

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velifer t1_j1yxael wrote

Is uuencoding still a thing?

That opens up a much wider list of use cases, and you KNOW which one it's gonna be. The Jordan-Gaetz kind of thing the FBI will be interested in.

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