Secrets From The Future
Why Hacker News recommends it
Brought up in threads on encryption and quantum cracking as a fitting song about future decryption.
What it is
MC Frontalot's nerdcore song "Secrets From The Future" (2007), about secrets not staying hidden once future technology can break today's encryption.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec davidmurdoch · 2021-03 · on “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]
Cites Lammy · 2021-09 · on “Stop Using Encrypted Email (2020)”
> 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"
Cites CrazyPyroLinux · 2022-11 · on “Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose your passwords in case of death?”
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"