Which I why i think that there will be a move to double signing software updates for critical devices. Signed by the manufacturer and also by a regulator on completion of a code review of any new build. Without both signatures the device won't accept the update.

The demand to unlock the phone was ruled unlawful. It’s hardly a radical proposition that those that investigate potential breaches of the law should have to abide by the law and due process themselves. All this slap dash approach has done is give a loudmouth a soapbox. It’s counterproductive.

The classic authoritarian response:“You should hand over your basic civil rights to make life easier for the government”

Have a look across the pond for how things go when the checks and balances on governance are weakened.

All this case has done is make him a martyr and given increased publicity.

The biggest threat to our national security (especially under a future Reform government) is the avalanche of surveillance and ’anti terror’ legislation enacted over the last couple of decades. Not some two bit gobshite.

No, it’s the correct ruling. Anti terror legislation should not be used to allow the state to go on a fishing expedition. Too many people are all too willing to throw the rule of law under a bus if it means ‘getting’ unsavoury individuals like ‘Tommy Robinson’.

Publicly known STEM. When K1 K2 and K3 were publicly decoded by Jim Gillogly it transpired that CIA and NSA had already solved them. I would not be surprised if NSA have already likewise cracked K4 many years ago and are just keeping quiet until there is a public solution.

Sorry but this is just nonsense.

The top 1% of Income Tax payers received 12.5% of total income in 2020 to 2021 but accounted for for 29.1% of total Income Tax in 2020 to 2021. i.e. 2.3 times the amount as a proportion of their income.

Yes, it is a bypass of the cipher which is how encryption is defeated these days given the mathematical robustness of ciphers like AES.

Social engineering, scraping improperly secured keys and credentials, side channel attacks on hardware etc are the way modern encryption is bypassed or “broken“.

Define “works well”. The output may appear reasonable to a lay user but anyone versed in the subject matter will see the errors.

Kryptos is a sculpture at CIA headquarters with an as yet undeciphered code K4.

AI makes stuff up mixing real information with complete nonsense:

Good at spewing superficially plausible text but there is no real thinking behind it.

A case in point is all the idiots using AI to “solve” Kryptos K4. The output is meaningless drivel dressed up with technical jargon to the point that the KryptosK4 subreddit has banned all AI “solutions”.

They didn’t solve it anymore someone reading the answers page solves a crossword puzzle. They’ve just managed to look at the plaintext. Hopefully they won’t spoil it and will leave it for others to solve.

True, also I can think of quite a few autocracies that treat their tourists better than the USA. For me it’s a no go zone until there is a change in the government. Plenty to see and do in Europe any way.

Not really. Without a method and key there is no verifiable proof that the cipher text on the Kryptos sculpture goes to this plain text.

Oh dear. I hope they keep it secret as does any buyer too. K4 is fascinating because it’s secret. The plaintext is probably quite mundane. Some things are best unsolved. The quest for an answer is often more fulfilling than the answer itself.

Password disclosure can be required under s49 RIPA which itself was passed on the basis of combatting terrorism.

This however was a border stop and the relevant power being used and what he is charged under is Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 not RIPA.

The guy is a complete chancer but I still think that the use of ’anti terror‘ legislation (which doesn’t even require reasonable suspicion) to search people’s devices at the border and compel giving your password is overreaching.

It’s also why it is being rolled out after peak holiday season to give time to register regular travellers prior to next years summer holiday season and so reduce the numbers needing to be registered for the first time then.

I like that idea a lot, a set of additional clues to be released at periodic intervals.

Keeps the intellectual challenge of solving it while offering a way forward after 35 years of no progress.

On the other hand the letter could just be a signed confirmation by Ed that the plaintext correct without disclosing the method.

Personally I hope at least the method and preferably the whole puzzle are kept as a mystery to be solved by brainpower and not a pile of cash.

Will the buyer be getting the method of encoding as well as the plaintext? I see the lot contains a signed letter by Ed Scheidt grouped together with the plaintext. Is this the method?

I’ve long suspected Ed not Jim is the brains behind K4 encoding method.

Hopefully any buyer will keep the solution secret. The mystery of Kryptos is in the unknown. Maybe someone has already solved it but is keeping the knowledge to themselves. Would you publish the solution if you discovered it?

AI coding is worse than useless for anything more than boilerplate code.

It won’t define a specification for the problem to be solved or deal with edge cases.

For that you need a real understanding far beyond what a fancy autocomplete will spew out.

Implementation failed. If YT language is set to English it will auto dub German channels I want to hear in their native language and vice versa. Dual language videos are even worse. No option in the video settings on mobile to just have the original audio. Also would prefer subtitles to dubbing.

Can use a physical object, the passports and ID cards in Germany and many other EU countries facilitate digital access via their NFC chip which contains cryptographically signed ID data. You just scan the chip with your phone to log into online services.

Problem with purely physical document checks by employers / landlords is forged documents.

Could be solved either by digital ID or alternatively requiring employers / landlords to scan the NFC chips in biometric passports with an app that checks the cryptographically signed data.

And yet countries like Germany that are much more skeptical of things that the UK already does like CCTV, facial recognition, ANPR and internet connection records (ISP keeping your browsing history) are fine with ID cards.

Even worse are the sites that mandate a special character and then don‘t accept the auto generated secure password which doesn’t have one.

Well MS did try and force a touchscreen interface on non touchscreen devices with Windows 8 so it’s not unexpected for them to chase the latest fad at the expense of usability.

Sounds much like many economists who would rather try and adjust the world to agree with their models than rethink their models in light of real world events.

Stopping a nuclear armed state from using them on a non nuclear state with impunity.

Doesn’t stop low level conventional conflict between nuclear states though as seen with India and Pakistan.

A nuclear state still needs a strong conventional force to deter non-nuclear provocations.