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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If he knew, do you think he'd be wasting time talking here about it instead of, I don't know, ransoming millions of user passwords?

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like to think that most people would just contact the devs privately to get a fix pushed asap instead of ransoming everyone's passwords.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Right, but my point was that there aren't public bugs in encryption algorithms just hanging around. Asking for those is categorically bad faith.