[mattbeckman]

As we head into the post-truth era, we already know videos are going to become far less trusted due to deep fake tech. Finding grains of truth through cryptography, like DKIM, is so refreshing that it hurts to think some people want to cripple it.

The Hunter Biden email is a good example.

I initially thought it was a garbage tabloid drop, but once I read Rob Graham's analysis, it felt very refreshing to have a real nugget of truth based on math. While the context of that content is up for debate, the truth was essentially undeniable (unless you subscribe to the 2016 private key being stolen).

We need nuggets of truth.

[davewritescode]

The Hunter Biden email is a terrible example. It's very likely that what's been found on "Hunter Biden's" laptop is just hacked material which has been stuffed on a laptop to disguise the original source of the breach. In this case the DKIM signatures are being used to lend credibility to the story that the laptop was mysteriously left in repair shop, never to be reclaimed.

DKIM is not meant to validate conversations, it's meant to validate single messages for the purposes of spam prevention. Just because I can cryptographically validate selectively chosen messages from someone's mailbox, I don't have any proof that the conversation happened as presented.

There's a good reason why eliminating non-repudiation has been a goal of messaging protocols since OTR in 2004.

[rabuse]

It's not farfetched to believe a crack-addicted wealthy individual who seemed to live a very "promiscuous" lifestyle, would have forgotten some cheap laptop at a repair shop. These people are humans, at the end of the day.

[gitweb]

Yes, it is far-fetched given that the story doesn't add up. Also, cocaine isn't known to cause people to suddenly become poor thinkers. I've seen this narrative pushed multiple times that somehow him doing cocaine made him fly across country and drop off his laptop to a blind computer repair shop owner and leave it there with sensitive information on it which was verified by a blind man with his signature, which was then turned over to Rudy Gulliani because he was concerned about the material.