Post 9gjIsLbnFhcdv7AjdQ by Thunderfree@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9gjI4WUYVxP3C91pzc by enigmatico@misskey.xyz
       2019-03-13T13:25:15.079Z
       
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       "military-grade encryption"That's like cooking something into a ration and saying "military-grade cooking". Just because the army uses it, doesn't mean it necessarily has to be "military", since it's available to the public.The internet would be a military-graded network if that was the case.
       
 (DIR) Post #9gjIsLbnFhcdv7AjdQ by Thunderfree@octodon.social
       2019-03-13T13:27:40Z
       
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       @enigmatico GPS is military-grade navigation tech. Reminds me of my favorite online handle: "but_what_about_the_civilian_applications?"
       
 (DIR) Post #9gjIsLpyOyxsd5o3jk by enigmatico@misskey.xyz
       2019-03-13T13:34:14.236Z
       
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       @Thunderfree@octodon.social I guess the difference between something that is actually "military-graded" and something is not is the kind of conditions it was designed for, and not the people that uses it.For instance, a fighter antenna that uses special components with minimal tolerance, uses special coatings to resist low temperatures, more gold coated connections to ensure a better electrical transmission and a case designed to ressist low pressures, heat, cold, etc, could be "military-graded" since it's designed to resist extreme conditions during a war.Yet again, perhaps any plane might need an antenna like this since it's going to be in kind of similar conditions while flying at a high altitude.Electronics in space might also need this kind of electronic.So, I don't know if there is really anything "military-graded" or not. More like, "the army likes to use this".
       
 (DIR) Post #9gjJeMDyGYRpjJvFJY by izaya@social.shadowkat.net
       2019-03-13T13:42:54.857740Z
       
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       @enigmatico DES-56 is military grade encryption, it's significantly weaker than everything in use today, but they standardised on it in the 80s and 90s :D
       
 (DIR) Post #9gjKJIGtropHLMoQF6 by enigmatico@misskey.xyz
       2019-03-13T13:50:19.224Z
       
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       @izaya@social.shadowkat.net Welcome to the world of marketing! Where everything goes as long as you sell your product!Would you buy a product if I told you it uses AES256 to cypher it's storage content and RSA for it's communications? No! Because the general public doesn't care about complicated acronyms they don't want to learn!Instead, just tell them this device uses "military-grade encryption".It sounds cool. And people will say "Hey! Since it's military-grade, it's very good! Because it's military. People uses it on wars and stuff".Reminds me of this time when I got SuperGlue(tm), and they said in the package that "it was used to make airplanes".For what? To stick the chair covers to the chair? I don't believe they use that to weld the chassis, you know...