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windzyy t1_j217fad wrote

Reply to comment by 1justathrowaway2 in Cloudhiker: Randomly discover the most interesting, weird or funny websites of the internet like in the old StumbleUpon days by theKovah

i WISH that was the standard. it’s actually kind of hard to get webpages to play music right off the bat now. i tried to do it with a site i made on github pages and i think chrome was blocking it — something about webpages suddenly blaring music being shocking to users (which i get but… still)

it seems like everything is kind of standardized to look and sound appealing and unobtrusive to everyone

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koolman2 t1_j20ongn wrote

Reply to comment by DankmirianChancellor in Publicnote.com - a notepad website where you enter any title to access a note. You are free to modify any note you find. by unchikuso

The title is hashed using SHA-256 and is stored as the hash only. The title is used to create the AES256 key, which is used to encrypt the note.

Without the title, you can't decrypt the note. Since the title isn't stored, you can't read any of it without inputting the correct title.

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samehaircutfucks t1_j20bz14 wrote

Reply to comment by Jaredlong in Publicnote.com - a notepad website where you enter any title to access a note. You are free to modify any note you find. by unchikuso

That's not what encryption does. You're referring to security through obscurity. Encryption makes it so even if the note is found, it is unreadable by anyone other than those with the key to decrypt.

Writing in a made up language is closer to encryption than your example.

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Jaredlong t1_j205b1q wrote

Reply to comment by bad_at_hearthstone in Publicnote.com - a notepad website where you enter any title to access a note. You are free to modify any note you find. by unchikuso

Jfc, I didn't mean it's literal actual encryption. In terms of the difficulty of someone unintentionally finding the note it's LIKE encryption because they'd need the specific key to find it.

Has your middle school English class not covered similes yet?

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