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It'd be nice if there was a form of encryption where a user could provide a secondary password plus a unique hash associated with a file to check if that file i
by omgwtfbyobbq 6y ago
It'd be nice if there was a form of encryption where a user could provide a secondary password plus a unique hash associated with a file to check if that file is present without opening up access to everything.
- adammunich 6y agoThis is a really neat idea
- SQueeeeeL 6y agoIs it, could easily be used by authoritarian states to check on if any of their citizens have forbidden literature on their computers...
- omgwtfbyobbq 6y agoProvided the person gives up their password. The same applies to any encryption.
- elliekelly 6y agoOr if you could set a “self-destruct” or “wipe disk” passcode. We toyed with a similar idea for ATM cards in Massachusetts after a woman in Boston was abducted, forced to withdraw money from her bank account and then brutally murdered. The idea being that you’d have a PIN and an optional “911 PIN” that would work exactly the same but alert authorities. The PIN would grant you access to accounts and give you money, etc. so anyone holding a gun to your head would be clueless but by entering the 911 PIN authorities would know you were in need of immediate assistance. It was ultimately scrapped because the regulator backed off of requiring additional ATM security once the news stopped covering the murder. But the same concept could be applied to unwanted cellphone intrusions.
- sneak 6y agoThere is a setting on iOS to wipe the device automatically after 10 failed passcode attempts.