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benjojo posted 25 Jan 2026 23:04 +0000

I swear some systems setup advice on the internet is literally written by intelligence agencies as a psyop

One of these methods for generating a LUKS (full disk encryption) password is not like the other....

Creating, Formatting and Mounting an Encrypted Disk : Create a passphrase for encryption. Choose something with high entropy (i.e., lots of randomness). Here are two options (pick one): the first one is an open ssl command that is actually okay, the second one is a chain of hashing on the current date time to the second, this is very much not okay

joelh@infosec.exchan.. replied 26 Jan 2026 09:27 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/nN53M9Wqk5SxB4J2c7

@benjojo It reads like an LLM, where the model may have been concerned that the system didn’t have OpenSSL so provided an alternative, and the author had no idea and just copy pasta for AdSense revenue.

benjojo replied 26 Jan 2026 10:16 +0000
in reply to: https://infosec.exchange/users/joelh/statuses/115960685686420582

@joelh this was written way before LLMs even entered the scene, Rather than an artificial intelligence, I think this is just natural stupidity