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Is the extra 100 bits of security on your cryptography standard what's actually going to stop them? In reality, most hacks are stopped by stupid stuff, like cl

Is the extra 100 bits of security on your cryptography standard what's actually going to stop them? In reality, most hacks are stopped by stupid stuff, like closing down ports and proper key management hygiene, not by using completely-brute-force-proof encryption standards. I'll make you a deal: do everything else on that compute-limited embedded device to a practically-uncrackable standard, then you can upgrade to 256 bit crypto. Some devices get there, but no consumer electronics. Encrypting the filesystem on that specific device is also completely irrelevant to my security as a user - it has more to do with Google protecting itself from copies and users being able to add features.

jart 3y ago
Third parties who want to exploit the relationship between Google and its users are certainly not users. I don't think it's productive to question their intentions. The better question to be asking here is how or why we allowed our homes to become yet another front in the war between Google and its adversaries. Their business model doesn't jive with third amendment culture. I reject any world in which guests within my home have a legitimate need for their own military grade encryption. That is not the future I'm rooting for.