If successful, a Lemmy ad campaign would cost Reddit far more than it would give them.
WolfLink
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Good thing I have just as many silica packets lying around as I do rice…
Yep! Researchers are nerds. The state-of-the art PQC asymmetric encryption algorithm is named after Star Wars Kyber Crystals, and the same group released a digital signature algorithm based on the same underlying math named after Star Trek Dilithium Crystals.
I love the pressure sensitive trackpad but my mom always complains when the force-click pop up appears when she tries to click normally but presses too hard. I’m pretty sure most users don’t take advantage of it.
A related feature was pressure sensitivity in their phones, which the removed because most users weren’t using it.
TLDR Signal made a decision that has different tradeoffs and is waiting for the tech to improve before taking the step Apple did.
All of these updates are extremely cutting edge and PQC tech is not matured, so both Signal and Apple implementing it now is mostly a marketing move.
In Apple’s press release, they mention they use a combination of the new PQC “Kyber Crystals” algorithm and the existing standard “ECDSA” algorithm. This is because Kyber is is too new and hasn’t stood the test of time yet. Apple doesn’t want to trust it fully because someone could come discover a vulnerability.
Even if it is motivated by marketing, it’s good that these companies are competing in this space because it drives the tech forward, and it’s good that they are working on including PQC now even though the tech is immature, because the goal is to protect against attacks involving storing encrypted data now and decrypting it later once quantum computers are more mature.
That’s how they beat competition: by innovating in small-ways.
They didn’t make the first Laptop, but they innovate in ways like high-quality display and trackpad, and having a touch-bar.
They don’t always do it well. Touch-bar and pressure-sensitive trackpad have been hit-or-miss features.
AirPods weren’t the first Bluetooth earphones, but Apple managed to make them wildly popular.
Vision Pro is … honestly I’m not sure where they’re going with it. I think the most similar competing product is the Facebook/Meta/Oculus “Quest”, but that focuses on running games while the Apple Vision emphasizes anything but games.
Apple doesn’t invent new products; they take good ideas that others did poorly and do them well.
Go to old.reddit.com it still works the same (which is better than the new site or app on Desktop or mobile).
I’ve done this sort of thing before but the fundamental problem is people typically don’t just let you boot your OS on their machine.