I am an alcoholic and for me it's more you replace any activities outside of work with drinking as a substitute for doing stuff. Later you realise you didn't just replace activities alcohol replaced people too. So in the end all I had to do was drink.
Yes I made the switch back to "normal" hotels last year and everything was so much easier we arrived much earlier than expected and they had a better room available at that time so they gave us that one. Then took our bags while they cleaned the room went to the hotel's cafe for a coffee. Easy peasy.
Yeah, because encrypted data should be incompressible, as it should be indistinguishable from random data, which is also incompressible.
Reality is a little different of course, and compression can cause problems for encryption because compressed data tends to be highly predictable (especially things like compression headers and compression dictionaries). This allows for potential “known/chosen plaintext” attacks on the encryption.
Some classic examples of this type of attack are breaking Enigma (known plaintext, no compression) by assuming the content of some messages[0] and the more recent CRIME[1] attacks against TLS using compression to help produce a chosen plaintext.
The simple solution in these scenarios is to avoid using compression completely.
Why did he say hackers then? These ex-FB people aren't hacking anything. I don't agree with your interpretation one bit.
Not only are they not comparable in terms of hacking/espionage, there's a huge difference between a group of americans spending money to influence american elections compared to russian military and intelligences ops doing it.
And that's still true even if the russians weren't pushing both false/misleading propaganda and weaponizing the products of their targeted espionage.
