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"Encrypted"? Yeah, right! (furries.club)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Encrypted"? Yeah, right!

So I came across a video provider that's supposed to serve encrypted videos and claims them to be un-downloadable.

Since I was curious, I tried to decrypt the streams and by using the ANCESTRAL DECRYPTING POWER of "Putting the stream file into VLC" I managed to defeat their state of the art #encryption and play their #video just fine.

Makes you think about what some companies tell you, VS what's actually the case. So, be careful about sharing sensitive data, even if they tell you it's secure!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

Downloaded through HTTPS so end-to-end encrypted

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it can be displayed via an HDMI it can be captured.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@LodeMike A more programatically concrete way would be to use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaStream/_Recording/_API/Using/_the/_MediaStream/_Recording/_API

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yes but even with DRM "protected" content

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is the video so dark? I thought my phone's brightness settings were off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

@Redex68 Honestly I have no idea, I barely use OBS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That reminds me: What happened to that person who finished all their posts "US military encrypted"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@prex Wait that's a thing?
Well, this host basically the same value as a "Sent from my iPad" signature haha, how can you encrypt a post that's publicly available to everyone?

- Sent with Mastodon Web

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I looked it up - its even worse than I remember:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Ugh that's cringe

Double-ROT13 Encrypted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What did they think would happen? The US military would encrypt the message for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At my job if we put encrypt in an email message the server encrypts it before sending maybe he thought it was like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know.

Russian military anno 1939 encrypted

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

@helloyanis @soatok @programmer_humor Security by obscurity is the encryption of fools…