My tinfoil hat take is that there's significant interest to keep everything digital, always-online and connected to the major providers, so it can easily be snooped by five eyes using their omnipresent backdoors.

Passkey biometrics also allow you to confirm certain person is holding the device right in this very moment, and not receiving a TOTP via walkie-talkie. Especially important for kinetic sanctions.

If you check out their Terramare group of companies those guys are still using typewriters. Unless you're US/UK millionaire I recommend to stay as analog as possible with physical password book and TOTP/yubikey.

Same with the push for "post-quantum crypto" and elliptic curves. I feel my systems get significantly more attention when using 8k RSA than any of its modern replacements. While I love wireguard the transition to ED25519 felt way too smooth..

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forsalebypwner 2 days ago | parent [-]

the fact that some nebulous "group of companies" still uses typewriters does not mean that all modern cryptography is flawed

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bflesch 2 days ago | parent [-]

Diversity is resilience; no need to standardize on curves or "post-quantum" IBM bullshit if other approaches still work perfectly fine.

And if the pros are using typewriters in 2026 it's not a signal for me to put even more eggs into the US-megacorp dominated basket who treat me like an NPC who can be droned at will.

	▲	forsalebypwner 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		An important skill to develop is determining whether somebody is bullshitting you. Because it would be impossible for any one human to perfectly understand all of these concepts, right? So when I read this person's blog post, I felt I could trust him, based on what I know about work he's done previously. I'm not saying you should trust me on this, or even blindly trust him, but look at his body of work, and the sources he cites, and make the call for yourself: https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
	▲	icantevenhold 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What the hell are you talking about? What pros use typewriters for what (to write code?)? I get reluctance about being dependent from the US but your reason seems a bit off