OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

#octade #octad #binary #byte #jargon #etymology #bytemology #wordplay #wordgames #wordcrimes #history #retro #retronym #retronymous #yinzer #pennsyltucky #humor

@wordplay@lemmy.ml @Vocabulary@lemmy.ml

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OCTADE | news://alt.flashback | https://soc.octade.net

#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

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Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)
Publications: https://octade.net/publications.html
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Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.
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Keyoxide2: https://keyoxide.org/B9B2A8EC2C4B20D2011CFEAA07E4A7FFF6585E8F
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@buckbriar

just went to start the hem of a top-down sweater i'm knitting

pattern says "switch to US 4 needle"

"what do you mean, switch to"

knit practically the whole damn thing on needles two sizes too small 💀

#knittersofmastodon

Psychology is an administrative vocabulary masquerading as a natural science, and the most damning evidence is that the discipline best equipped to rescue it is quietly declining to speak its language. Thoughts?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-zombie-factory?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #psychology #zombies #ethics #blog #substack #writing #critique #news #language #society #culture #power #instrumentation #evidence #podcast #thoughts

I would like to find obscure and interesting manifesto type writings not listed on that web site. Suggestions? Links?

#manifesto

I just saw a tiny dog happily trotting down the street with a short string of those sausages that are linked together end to end in its mouth. It was so happy. The scene looked like a cartoon that had come to life.

A question I've been pondering recently:

Is it OK that a person who clearly isn't mentally OK can post stuff online that will ruin their reputation forever? And if not, how to prevent it?

If you don't get it yet, this age verification that California is forcing into OS's (and Colorado is about to) isn't about protecting kids. It does nothing to protect kids.

But it is the first step towards needing your ID to use your computer, and tying your ID to everything you do with your computer.

In short, this is bad, and it's laying the ground work for mass surveillance the likes of which we haven't seen before.

And the thing that sucks is because they're using the "Think of the children" line, it'll probably go through without any resistance at all.

Make your plans now for how you want to respond to this, because its probably not a matter of if, but when this happens.

CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE ACCUSED OF 8.12.2020
FROM 16 TO 23 SEPTEMBER 2023
"The 7 french comrades arrested on 8 December 2020 will go on trial from 3 to 27 October 2023. They will be judged for «criminal association of terrorist criminals» (art. 450-1) in Paris. No terrorist project has been established after two years of investigation characterized by the use of white torture and a very intrusive surveillance. The criminal classification was not retained but the terrorist and collective dimension remains despite the total absence of evidence or even links between all the seven people. Several of them are also charged with “refusing to surrender a secret decryption convention” (Art. 434-15)."
https://anarchistnews.org/content/call-international-week-solidarity-accused-8122020
#Repression #France #Counterterrorism #Frankreich

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Poster in support of the accused fom 8.12.2020 charged by french state of ultraleft terrorism Call for an international week of solidarity

Did #WhatsApp Lie About #Encryption For A Decade?

WhatsApp just got sued for allegedly lying about end-to-end encryption, with claims that #Meta employees can access any user's #messages through a simple internal request.

While the lawsuit provides no technical proof, we'll show you the confirmed privacy issues with WhatsApp and explain why closed-source encryption is fundamentally untrustworthy.

https://techlore.tv/w/oqjQuc25Sc7xcEfavaf1Cf

Sammelklage: WhatsApp-Verschlüsselung angeblich unwirksam

Eine Sammelklage gegen Meta behauptet, die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung von WhatsApp-Nachrichten sei nur eine Fassade. Meta weist das entschieden zurück.

https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/115972331299926515

A new class‑action lawsuit alleges WhatsApp’s end‑to‑end encryption is ineffective, claiming Meta can access users’ supposedly private chats despite long‑standing privacy assurances. 📱🔒
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Class-action-lawsuit-WhatsApp-encryption-allegedly-ineffective-11156940.html
#WhatsApp #Encryption #Meta #Privacy #TechNews

#SIgnal is the better #WhatsApp ✅ 💡

https://signal.org/download/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already

the EFF is now launching "Encrypt It Already" a push to try and get companies to invest in stronger privacy protections for Data & communications

You can find out more at the announcement/article above, and the official website here: https://encryptitalready.org/

#EFF #Privacy #Security #Encryption #E2EE

hat.sh lets you encrypt files locally in your browser using modern cryptography — nothing is uploaded or stored.

Perfect for securing files before sharing or using cloud storage. Open-source and self-hostable.

👉 https://github.com/sh-dv/hat.sh

👉 More tools like this : https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #Encryption #OpenSource #SelfHosting #DigitalSecurity

Cryptomator is a client-side encryption tool for cloud storage services.

Data protected via AES-256 encryption.
Individual and business features.
Managed and self-hosted options.

ENCRYPTED

File content.
File/Folder name.

NOT ENCRYPTED

File/Folder access/creation/modification timestamp.
Number of files/folders in a folder/vault.
File size.

Website: https://cryptomator.org
Mastodon: @cryptomator

#Cryptomator #Encryption #InfoSec #Privacy #CyberSecurity #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

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Cryptomator logo.

📌 End-to-end encryption doesn’t protect everything you think it does. It secures content in transit, but not metadata, backups, logins, or account access.

Whether you’re a user or a business leader, understanding this gap between privacy marketing and technical reality matters.

👉 Read more: https://medium.com/@biytelum/end-to-end-encrypted-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means-59c0ab39296b

#Privacy #Encryption #Security #TechTruth #DataProtection #BiyteLüm

My message for #GlobalEncryptionDay... for every entity interested in #surveillance:
I will resist and it's my human right.
Encryption is not for bad actors only, it protects innocent people every day.
We are not criminals.

#privacy #encryption

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My modified photo. Woman in grey hoodie and black trousers, with right hand up and close to camera, is blurred. Top and bottom parts of the image are covered with added dark blue shadow. Whole picture is covered with semi-transparent Base64 PGP message. There is pale yellow text near bottom part: "I am not a criminal. I am not a terrorist. I USE ENCRYPTION."

European lawmakers keep asking for the impossible: Break #encryption in a way that’s ”safe”

They can’t tell the difference between technical and legal

Unfortunately there is a trove of ”experts” with devious intent, that keep telling them this is possible!

It’s not. Breaking encryption is fundamentally unsafe. It would open our entire society to Russian and American #influence operations

And that includes the companies we’re expecting to build #EU Data #Sovereignty

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pfVng5csqyk

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

X's documentation explicitly states:

"Direct messages are not protected against hacking or unauthorised access."

If messages aren't protected against hacking, they're not encrypted properly.

This is encryption theatre, not encryption.

Words matter in security.

#Encryption #Cybersecurity #Twitter #Privacy

I built pagevault, a tool that turns any file into a self-contained encrypted HTML page. PDFs, images, whole websites, encrypted into a single .html you can email or host anywhere. Decrypts in the browser via Web Crypto API, no backend needed.

Chunked encryption handles 100+ MB files without choking the browser. Each chunk gets its own script tag, decrypted sequentially, then removed from the DOM for GC.

#encryption #python #webdev #opensource

https://metafunctor.com/post/2026-02-13-pagevault/

Happy to report that about a year after getting a mate to communicate using Signal instead of WhatsApp, we just today made the progression to securing our emails via pgp. 🥳

He was already using Thunderbird as his email client, and although just a few clicks it was a James Bond meets Bill Gates moment when we sent and received encrypted, signed emails to one another. 🤓

[Per the anarchist theory of practice] I remain convinced this practice of changing how we behave on the internet with intention will continue to change the people engaging in it. Digital prefigurative politics, nibbling away at surveillance capitalism one little data set at a time.

Slowly slowly catchim' monkey...... 🐒

Happy days. 😀

#pgp #encryption #Thunderbird #privacy

1/2 🚨 Today, the European Parliament is holding a public hearing on "lawful access to data for law enforcement." This hearing will platform the Commission and Europol's relentless attack on end-to-end #encryption.

We're heard this before: "lawful access" = encryption backdoors = #MassSurveillance ❌

✊🏾 We need EU lawmakers to #KeepItSafeAndSecure #KISS 🔒

💌 Sign our petition and join us in urging our lawmakers to protect encryption and ban spyware: https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/keep-it-safe-and-secure/

Delta Chat is a messaging platform that works over email.

Setup is similar to a email client.
Messaging is decentralized and interoperable.

Supports end-to-end encryption via PGP.
PGP encryption keys are created automatically.

Default desktop client is based on Electron.
Electron is based on the Google Chromium web browser.

Website: https://delta.chat
Mastodon: @delta

#DeltaChat #Messaging #Privacy #InfoSec #E2EE #OpenPGP #PGP #OpenSource #FOSS #CyberSecurity #Encryption #FreeSoftware

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Delta Chat logo.

New AirSnitch attack breaks Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

🛜 https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/

#airsnitch #wifi #encryption #home #itsecurity #it #itsec #network #office #enterprise #security #wifibreach

"New research shows that behaviors that occur at the very lowest levels of the network stack make encryption—in any form, not just those that have been broken in the past—incapable of providing client isolation, an encryption-enabled protection promised by all router makers, that is intended to block direct communication between two or more connected clients.

The isolation can effectively be nullified through AirSnitch, the name the researchers gave to a series of attacks that capitalize on the newly discovered weaknesses. Various forms of AirSnitch work across a broad range of routers, including those from Netgear, D-Link, Ubiquiti, Cisco, and those running DD-WRT and OpenWrt.

AirSnitch “breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the potential to enable advanced cyberattacks,” Xin’an Zhou, the lead author of the research paper, said in an interview. “Advanced attacks can build on our primitives to [perform] cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated attacks will work. It’s really a threat to worldwide network security.” Zhou presented his research on Wednesday at the 2026 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium.

Paper co-author Mathy Vanhoef, said a few hours after this post went live that the attack may be better described as a Wi-Fi encryption “bypass,” “in the sense that we can bypass client isolation. We don’t break Wi-Fi authentication or encryption. Crypto is often bypassed instead of broken. And we bypass it ;)” People who don’t rely on client or network isolation, he added, are safe."

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/new-airsnitch-attack-breaks-wi-fi-encryption-in-homes-offices-and-enterprises/

#CyberSecurity #Wifi #Encryption #AirSnitch

Tagged new releases for every repository in the Public Key Directory project

• More test coverage
• Found minor specification gaps and filled them
• More robust deployments with SQLite

https://publickey.directory

Cryptography as a tool of power
https://negativepid.blog/cryptography-as-a-tool-of-power/

#cryptography #history #IT #tech #privacy #Internet #tech #IT #science #STEM #computing #AI #quantumComputing #quantumPhysics #inventions #innovation #negativepid

We’re joining forces with IBM Research to implement post-quantum cryptography in Threema. 🤝 https://threema.com/bp/quantum-secure-future

Are you Quantum AI blockchain zero-trust triple-ratchet encryption ready?

Al Gore Invented the Internet.
Joe Biden invented PGP encryption.
Cypherpunks write code.

Joe Biden gifted humanity with PGP encryption (in a roundabout way). Phil Zimmermann created PGP in response to a anti-privacy bill clause proposed by Senator Joe Biden.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/cypherpunks-write-code

"In 1990, the FBI launched an over-the-top crackdown on computer hackers, known as Operation Sundevil. This was swiftly followed, in early 1991, by a proposed piece of U.S. Senate legislation that would force electronic communications service providers to hand over people’s personal data. (The key clause, S.266, was pushed by the then chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Joe Biden.)"

"On learning of Biden’s S.266 clause, Zimmermann feverishly set out to complete the project, almost losing his house in the process. When he finished his software in 1991, he published it all online, free for anyone who wanted to use it. He called it “Pretty Good Privacy,” or PGP for short, and within weeks it had been downloaded and shared by thousands of people around the world. “Before PGP, there was no way for two ordinary people to communicate over long distances without the risk of interception,” said Zimmermann in a later interview. “Not by phone, not by FedEx, not by fax.” It remains the most widely used form of email encryption to this day."

https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/266

"SEC. 2201. COOPERATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorized by law."

#Biden #JoeBiden #PGP #Cypherpunks #Cypherpunk #PhilZimmermann #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Cryptography #GPG #Email #Senate #Law #Government #Panopticon #Hackers #Hacking #Security #Encryption

About the Age Verification bills in California and Colorado:

It seems few people are actually bothering to read the bills and instead just want to scream while running around in circles. Neither of the bills are mandating you give your ID/Face-Scan/Transactional Documents/etc. to be able to setup your computer.

The only thing you give is your birth-date/age, you are assigned an age-category, and apps and websites respond accordingly.

Don't get me wrong, there are still valid concerns about these bills, but few are actually discussing those concerns. Most are just assuming the worst and panicking.

Also, I don't know how these bills would be enforceable on Linux (or any decentralized, FOSS ecosystem).

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #AgeVerification #US #UnitedStates #California #Colorado

Anyone who makes a heart shape with their fingers is a massive cunt.

Morning People, lexi in the house!

@GopherPete

So, I program the internet for a hobby. Mostly plain text programs (no database). I use APIs, RSS, bash, and I often output html and css.

Lately I have become aware of people programming gopher the way I program the internet.

I would like to add this to my toolbox.

Do you have any links or suggestions on how I can learn about this?

Americans are destroying #Flock #surveillance #cameras | TechCrunch

people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. #immigration authorities and #deportations.
#alpr #privacy #immigrants #security

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/americans-are-destroying-flock-surveillance-cameras/

War is Peace &
Freedom is Slavery &
Ignorance is Strength

So far, in this state of the union, I’ve heard a lot of self-flagellation… A lot of how great we are supposedly doing… But nothing about the problems facing our country or how we are going to fix them. Also, on a sidenote, as a broadcaster, I cringed with his microphone technique. Holy hell, that thing clipped so badly I swore he was swallowing it for a minute.

The little guy cannot compete if he is forced to share his source code with leviathan-funded competition.

Alright, fedi, y'all have a reputation for being unrepentant Linux nerds, so I'm asking you to use your powers for good. I've tried Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and most recently Rocky Linux 10 for my day-to-day workstation needs, and now I want to try something else. Which distro should I try next?

#DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042

A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once.

Pangram hash generates a perfect pangram hash digest consisting of a anagram permutation of a character set. Each character in the output is unique and non-repeating.

#Hashing #Cryptography #Anagrams #Papers #Preprints

@cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org

I see a small and slowly growing trend of people pushing to add some form of monetisation to ActivityPub itself and I hope we can collectively push that out to higher layers, meaning ActivityPub should stay limited to transporting messages. If you want monetisation, it MUST be implemented by building a layer on top of AP. Let's not have it in AP itself. My personal opinion. How? You could go for encrypted messages where a time-limited decrypt key is exchanged after payment for example.