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WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls
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FBI and CISA officials said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
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    I go one further and also use public/private key pairs that my acquaintances must use to decrypt the scrambled letters I mail them.

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      All my official communications are in a rotating cypher of Navajo, Hungarian, and Korean.

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        Good luck decrypting my smoke signal cypher!

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          The Semaphor Version of Wurthering Heights

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          Plains sign language described in Serbian phonetically from mandarin characters

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        I just send back and forth plain gibberish. Good luck breaking that!

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