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Secrets From The Future

Secrets From The Future on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2022.

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MC Frontalot's nerdcore song "Secrets From The Future" (2007), about secrets not staying hidden once future technology can break today's encryption.

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Brought up in threads on encryption and quantum cracking as a fitting song about future decryption.

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3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

davidmurdochMar 2021Strongly recommends

This reminds me to listen to MC Frontalot's Secrets from the Future again. If you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat! ▶ this video

in “Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory” · View on HN

CrazyPyroLinuxNov 2022Cites it

That made me think of MC Frontalot's "Secrets From the Future" ▶ this video "by 2025 a children's Speak-and-Spell could crack it"

in “Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?” · View on HN

LammySep 2021Cites it

> Every long term secret will eventually leak. ▶ this video "You can’t hide secrets from the future with math. You can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed to enforce cryptographs in the past"

in “Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)” · View on HN

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