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Secrets From The Future

MC Frontalot - Topic · 58.5K views · 2015-11-14 · 4:51

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Overview

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

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2021–2022

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davidmurdoch · 2021-03 · Strong recommendation

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! [VIDEO]

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CrazyPyroLinux · 2022-11 · Reference

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

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Lammy · 2021-09 · Reference

> Every long term secret will eventually leak. [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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