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Rich Felker

@Em0nM4stodon And what can't be emphasized enough: even if you're not ~embarrassed~ or whatever at these things, they're all "false intimacy" vectors that can be used to phish, etc. by knowing context a stranger shouldn't.

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Rich Felker

@Em0nM4stodon This is very much related to the phenomenon of how folks will naively think it's fine to use telnet rather than ssh because they're not doing anything secret, completely oblivious to the fact that the most important thing the crypto is providing is integrity/authenticity of the interaction.

Knowledge private to particular contexts is what allows you to have interactions/relationships that aren't subverted by imposters.

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