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Secrets From The Future

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

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1 HN user recommended this music video in 1 different month between 2021 and 2022.

2007–2026

1 strong recommendation 2 citations HackerTube score 1.5

Brought up in threads on encryption and quantum cracking as a fitting song about future decryption.

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

Also tagged: nerdcore music about encryption, nerdcore, mc frontalot, encryption, song

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Strongly recommends davidmurdoch March 2021 under Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory

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]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it Lammy September 2021 under Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)

Song lyric about secrets not staying hidden from the future.

> 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"

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Cites it CrazyPyroLinux November 2022 under Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?

Song reminded commenter of future cracking of encryption.

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"

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