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Secrets From The Future

59K views · Nov 14, 2015 · 4:51 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2022

MC Frontalot's nerdcore song "Secrets From The Future" (2007), about secrets not staying hidden once future technology can break today's encryption.

Why Hacker News points people here: Brought up in threads on encryption and quantum cracking as a fitting song about future decryption.

What Hacker News said 3

Strongly recommendsdavidmurdochMar 2021

“If you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat!”

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This reminds me to listen to MC Frontalot's Secrets from the Future again. If you haven't heard it yet, you're in for a treat! this video

in “Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory” · view on HN
Cites itLammySep 2021

Song lyric about secrets not staying hidden from the future.

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> Every long term secret will eventually leak. this video "You can’t hide secrets from the future with math. You can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed to enforce cryptographs in the past"

in “Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)” · view on HN
Cites itCrazyPyroLinuxNov 2022

“That made me think of MC Frontalot's”

Song reminded commenter of future cracking of encryption.

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That made me think of MC Frontalot's "Secrets From the Future" this video "by 2025 a children's Speak-and-Spell could crack it"

in “Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?” · view on HN