See, just that paragraph which makes complete sense to you might as well be written in Japanese as far as me understanding it.....LOL!
I just posted that article as an explanation to the "illiterate" as it made the most sense to me as to which systems/companys were affected/or not. Sorry if I only added to the confusion.
I’m just trying to clarify things for lay people. My personal phone has been vibrating off my desk with calls from friends and family asking if they’re safe.
Encryption is one of those things that most web users just expect to work as intended. When you get into the finer points of it, even security professionals, myself included, have a hard time admitting that it’s foolproof. There’s a LOT that can be screwed up if you don’t know what you’re doing, and on the surface it might look like you’ve configured a perfectly functional secure environment, but to a trained hacker or government operative, you’ve created a honey pot of personal data.
The media is fanning some intense flames on this. I’m trying to throw a little water on to them, because people get worked into a froth over this stuff.