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TL;DR: An EU health data firm run by ex-military cryptographers offers a web portal for encrypting documents, which inherently exposes unencrypted documents to
by unyttigfjelltol 10mo ago
TL;DR: An EU health data firm run by ex-military cryptographers offers a web portal for encrypting documents, which inherently exposes unencrypted documents to the company and US national security laws. The media outlet incidentally also doubts the trustworthiness of military veterans from Israel.
Even following the "if there's smoke there's fire" model, unclear there's a strong scent of "smoke" here. One could write a similar guilt-by-historical-association article concerning anyone, in the same position, really. Obviously if you're uploading a file to a 3d party website, the vendor has some technical access, this should be warned.
- pareidolia 10mo agoThe bigger problem is that this model is inherently flawed. Even if end-to-end encryption with browser crypto were implemented, there is never any security since the code in the browser can simply be swapped with compromised code that diverts the plaintext somewhere. I've been forced to use this service, by way of healthcare professionals just disclosing correspondence to this service without asking for my consent. Smeerlappen.
- _el1s7 10mo agoSecurity is an illusion.
- pareidolia 10mo agoThen reply with your passwords.
- sallveburrpi 10mo ago****** Luckily HN automatically detects when you post your password and obfuscates it with * - try it out yourself!
- pareidolia 10mo agoYou think I was born yesterday :P
- Mordisquitos 10mo agohunter2
- Mordisquitos 10mo agoDoesn't look obfuscated to me.
- throw310822 10mo agoIt only obfuscates it for others :)
- KaiserPro 10mo agoThats the genius of it, to us it looks like **** but you see hunter2. Its an automatic replace.
- balex 10mo agoOh whew, I thought he was using hunter2 as his password too.
- tucnak 10mo ago> there is never any security since the code in the browser can simply be swapped with compromised code that diverts the plaintext somewhere. This is not the case in the land of DICE-like key derivation; see TKey protocol for example. You can download and run an actual rv32 program on actual FPGA over WebUSB without having to worry about its provenance. If the program is modified, firmware will derive a completely different key.
- pareidolia 10mo agoZivver is a web application. The javascript that comes with the webpage can change at any time for any reason, as Zivver sees fit.
- tucnak 10mo agoI'm simply pointing out that web standards allow for secure end-to-end communication, and more, in fact they happen to allow arbitrary cryptographic constructions—as long as the program itself never changes.
- pareidolia 10mo agoBut this requires special hardware right?
- tucnak 10mo agoNot necessarily. You can run TKey in qemu :-) etc. The hardware aspect is what makes it easy to use, with WebUSB and all. The derivation algorithm is key. And it takes program binary as parameter to Blake2 hash function.
- Fnoord 10mo ago[flagged]
- techsystems 10mo agoI used this in NL with the government. What can I do?
- nunobrito 10mo agoNot much, your data is already outside the EU being archived and processed by other countries.
- SilverElfin 10mo ago[flagged]
- yonixw 10mo agoLOL Next one: Cloudflare has an edge in Israel. And has workers who were in Unit8200 before 1991 (per linkedin) and ISRALIES. Who uses Cloudflare? MANY MEDICAL ORGS. Also, Cloudflare is just like MITM (CDN SSL termination). So does ISRAEL SPIES read all your MEDICAL data? > "To think otherwise is completely naïve" (real qoute from the article btw = no proof) What a sham article. Trump's TruthSocial level. But hey, most upvoted today (440+ points). And no point on reporting to mods also, I just get copy paste reply.