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I remeber times where a 5^1^/~4~ cardboard floppy was enough for all my documents and apps.
51/4 cardboard floppy
Wait, I'm also old enough to remember 5.25" floppies, but I always thought the casings were some sort of flexible plastic. Were some of them just card stock, or were they all some sort of treated paper product?
I know these as cardboard case, but certainly with some treatment to make it more resistant.
Youngster. Bet you've never even seen an 8" floppy IRL. And don't get me started on tape or punch cards...
I saw Punchcards in my military service and in the payroll office in my job later.
back before the days of hard drives being a standard thing :)
Yeah, but it's only about 12tb after you format it. Probably.
With all the data retention and logging requirements being imposed by various governments, your "joke" might not be so far off.
Those Yankee sanctions really keep backfiring, don't they?
love to see it
If I had been the project leader on this it would have had an even greater capacity because I would have taped a couple of keyring flash drives around the edge.
They're needed just to hold the massive encryption key, I'm assuming.
Wouldn't it be great if this would benefit us, real people?
amazon: best I can do is 1TB SSD for $179.
"Real" people? Are there fake people?
Corporations
I guess the sentiment is everyday individuals and not the corporates and the wealthy. Financial benefits of advancements rarely seem to benefit common folks
Seriously? Have you never run into a right-winger?
I suppose on twitter & reddit.
From the thumbnail, I expected: Scientists develop world's thinnest waffle.
That would be impressive but I bet it would be the most disappointing bite.
~~bite~~ byte
FTFY.
The Dutch have entered the chat.
Anyone else convinced AES-256 is not long enough a but length for full disk encryption anymore? Even the 512-bit schemes are just trying some offset-salts that, with ~10TB I worry about providing close-enough statistical significance for cryptanalysis.
With 100TB drives?! I am less worried and more... convinced its a problem.
I have to admit, that I never looked into the technical details of full disk encryption
If I understand you correctly, they are using the same key for all the data and with larger amounts of data statistical analysis becomes feasible
Did I get this right?
Couldn't that be solved by using a root key + salt per block/sector/file/whatever?
I'd still only need the one root key and with every block the actual encryption key changes
I was thinking about perfect forward secrecy and that was the first thing, I could come up with
But, I'm absolutely not a crypto/math guy, so probably I don't know enough to really add something to the discussion/solution...
At the current rate of development, every city will have its own ~~space heater~~ data center, so with all that computational power available to just any maligned local city government dignitary, you're right to be concerned.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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