FatherOfHoodoo

This reminds me of one of those documentaries where they show some ridiculous mechanical contraption in a scene, and the narrator says, "Before the technology became extinct, it had become vastly more complex and sophisticated, but alas, it's days were numbered..."

Ah-hah! Thank you. I figured me being stupid was the explanation...

I'd give him a significantly better than average chance of being for real. I have several friends who work in a local biotech lab who've watched his videos from whom the responses have been along the lines of "Huh, yeah, I suppose you could do it that way, if you had no money and lots of know-how..."

Well, I've made a reasoned response to someone's post and haven't been permabanned, so I have to assume that it's better here than the authoritarian state that r/libertarian has become!

No true libertarian would say that!

Monopolies are the opposite of free markets. Even pseudo-monopolies are counter to free markets as they inevitably use their dominance to manipulate the markets in their favor.

That said, I feel like there are a lot of libertarians who feel like free markets are core to the philosophy, and about as many who believe that free markets are a nice-to-have, secondary to everyone doing whatever they want in the market regardless of its impacts.

I mean, didn't they fuck everyone?

I have regular nerd-arguments about it:

"All they have to do is break two of your passwords, and they can reverse-engineer your passwords!" - Maybe, if they have a super-computer... "It's so much work" - Once. It's so much work once. Then, it's much easier than loading software or digging out a dongle every time you log into anything up until you decide to change all your algorithms... "What happens if you forget?" - What happens if you forget?

But my ex was really crazy. You gotta hear this!

It's nice to see the right starting to eat their own like the left does...

Liberté!

This is the situation I'm in. Half-a-dozen clients in the energy and automotive industries, each with multiple security regimes and short timeouts. Passwords mutate with time and I stay sane...