Comment by panarky
4 days ago
Just because you can imagine how a thing could theoretically be broken does not make it broken.
It's like saying a prisoner has the same freedoms as everyone else because he could theoretically escape.
4 days ago
Just because you can imagine how a thing could theoretically be broken does not make it broken.
It's like saying a prisoner has the same freedoms as everyone else because he could theoretically escape.
It's not a theory, I've done it.
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Prisoners escaping from prison is not a theory either, prisoners have actually escaped. Does that mean all prisoners are free?
This is a terrible analogy.
In cryptography, once any SINGLE person in the world has compromised a signing key, EVERY person in the world can use it.
Thus for a prisoner analogy, its equivalent to say once any SINGLE prisoner escapes, EVERY prisoner has the ability to escape.
So yes, in this terrible analogy it means all prisoners are free.
We've been here before: https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2011/04/nikon-image-authenticatio...
It's not an apt analogy. The prisoner's every move is guarded; the camera is free in your hands to be disassembled.