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I'm just imagining some poor person getting a call about 100,000$ that's been transferred to their account without any idea how or why.

On Linux you can just read from /dev/random, do other OSes not provide this?

What drives developers to reinvent these wheels? It's both more effort and worse.

> Because very few 'end user' people know how to use en/decryption

That's the point, rather than PDF viewers implementing this, it should be an OS-wide UX, so that you could click any encrypted file and have a unified password prompt, regardless of whether it's a PDF, PNG, DOCX, etc.

And the same goes the other way, rather than having your PDF viewer implement the encryption UX, you should just have an "Encrypt with password" entry in your file manager's context menu.

My apologies. Thanks for the correction

Exactly, I do this all the time for doing out-of-office demos with our company's robots.

I just set up my phone's hotspot to be the same SSID and password as the network the robots already know from the office, and I'll have the robots, a couple phones, and a laptop connected in 10 seconds.

Exactly, I've been to public places where the Wi-Fi password is on the wall and the router's admin password is "admin".

TIL rouge means red in French

Either way, I mean rouge in the sense of an AP that uses the same SSID and password as the AP of a coffee shop or office to have devices automatically connect to it without their users noticing.

Even a simple rouge AP is enough to become a MITM for this.

Not refusing requests doesn't mean they are zero-alignment. They could still have preferences for or against things that you might not agree with.

SSH keys are great, and you should absolutely use them

But you should also just listen to the big warning that says "IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!"

Yes, all the way up to 6.19 in fact!

How is that different from putting an app in a chroot jail or container?

Or just sending it a tiny zip bomb, or even just some sh*t right out of /dev/random

> Traditional Judaism has this really weird (to me, a goy) emphasis on finding loopholes in rules.

As an atheist Jew, it's weird to me as well...

> stay "indoors" on, I think it was, the Shabbat

Can't say I'm familiar with that one. What I'm generally familiar with is that you're not allowed to "work" on Shabbat, and the definition of work is extremely broad. For example, lighting a fire is considered work, turning a light switch on creates a tiny spark between the contacts, that counts as fire, so it's work.

This extends to pretty much every electrical device, so for those who observe Shabbat, using a computer or phone, turning the AC on or off, is all disallowed.

As a result there are many workarounds as you've described, timers, non-Jews (though you can't ask directly! You can say "it's hot in here", but not "Please turn the AC on"), fridges without a light bulb inside, and more.

> they do this with all things, from a young age.

Religious families do, to varying degrees. But I've met plenty of extremely talented programmers and hackers who do not follow any of the Jewish law.

Edit: Just noticed your username, I also want to say I really like your projects on YouTube!