24A2 sort of looks like 24^2, which is what I originally wanted to call it, and only uses alphanumeric characters. The combination of numbers and letters also reminded me of P5 and pico-8, which were both inspirations
For those that don't know, Recurse Center[^1] is a self-directed, 12 or 6 week free programming retreat in New York City. I'm currently enrolled, and my batch is finishing this week. It's been a really good learning experience, and I'd highly recommend it.
Has anyone heard anything from Moxie Marlinspike on this? Would be interesting to hear his perspective - Open Whisper Systems helped out with the encryption.
Well there are two possible scenarios I can envisage.
a) The issue was an oversight and simply a bug that needs
to be fixed. The question is why FB doesn't want it
fixed?
b) Moxie knew that this issue existed but was NDA'ed into
leaving it there for nefarious purposes. Now it's public
knowledge, where do we go from here?
This exploit is not in the original Signal protocol, and was introduced by WhatsApp. Signal discards undelivered messages when the encryption key changes, WhatsApp implemented re-transmission because they think it improves usability. It does do that, and it also introduces this security risk.
It says so right in the article. Stop spreading FUD.
Moxie endorsed Whatsapp, though. We view Moxie as a trusted actor, so either he is untrustworthy which would SUCK or he didn't know that they did this.
It allows you to quickly switch between different development contexts by:
- cd'ing you to a particular directory
- opening your text editor
- setting environment variables
- setting up VPNs
- anything else that can be scripted
