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mxxcon says...

I question accuracy of this video...If it's not wrong, it's gotta be extremely oversimplifying or misrepresenting some aspects of what's covered there...

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mxxcon says...

Standard SSL uses 2048byte key size. It's a standard key size considered to be secure enough for commercial and financial transactions.
However it takes no effort for them to use 16kb key size and implement 100 million key transformation cycles.
No amount of GPUs in the world will be able to bruteforce that kind of encryption. Not even NSA.

JiggaJonson said:

Has anyone tackled the encryption through GPU means? As in this: http://boingboing.net/2012/12/05/cracking-passwords-with-25-gpu.html

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mxxcon says...

missing the point of this video..

lucky760 said:

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'll save you some time if you have no idea what the answer is: Deleted files don't go anywhere. Basically, the pointer to the file on the hard drive is just marked as deleted, but the data stays where it was before deletion.

This is why (on Windows) you can easily undelete from the recycle bin.

Your deleted files can be recoverable for a very long time because the data will sit there until some other data is saved in the same location. And even in that case, most of the original data might still go untouched for a long time.

This is how forensic computer geeks are able to recover all the dirty secrets you thought were really deleted.

To really delete something, the entire file's saved data needs to be overwritten. There's a lot of great software like Eraser that you can use to do this easily.

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mxxcon says...

tired of paying $1200/month for rent?! Tell me where I can get that in NYC and i'll happily take that. How about $3000 for a studio..

And why wouldn't they just buy a ready-to-use trailer home?

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