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Josh and Kurt talk about end to end encrypted messages. This has been a popular topic lately due to the Mastodon popularity. Mastodon has a uniquely insecure messaging system, but they aren’t the only one. The eternal debate of can security and usability exist together? We suspect it can’t be, but it’s a very complicated topic. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_351_Is_security_or_usability_a_law_of_the_universe.mp3 Show Notes EFF on Mastodon DM privacy Towards End-to-End Encryption for Direct Messages in the Fediverse Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product

Josh and Kurt talk about their very silly GPG key management from the past. This is sadly a very true story that details how both Kurt and Josh protected their GPG keys. Josh’s setup is like something out of a very bad spy novel. It was very over the top for a key that really didn’t matter. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_331_GPG_but_nothing_makes_sense.mp3 Show Notes XKCD signed email Shire calendar Guardian editors destroy Snowden laptop