Keep things simple by creating and using aliases to run your most frequently executed commands.
ENCRYPTION GENIE PROBLEM
You can’t argue with maths – unless you’re the British government. Rishi and his chums at MI5 want to break good encryption to be able to spy on citizens. Private communications should be just that: private.
The government is proposing that it should have a legal intercept capability to read everyone’s encrypted messages and traffic. That means, as per the hacker film Sneakers, “No more secrets.” All your confidential messages, love affairs, gripes and downloaded naughty films laid bare to the government apparatus.
This push by the government is disingenuous because the way the police mostly work is by intelligence-driven policing via informants and disaffected insiders. They already have many tools in their armoury…
Often criminals are caught not because of the content of their messages but because they do stupid things or are not IT forensically aware. Carrying a smartphone as you carry out a killing leaves lots of metadata.
The police already have the right to compel the disclosure of passwords via the RIPA Act under threat of a two-year prison sentence for non-compliance.
Like nuclear weapons, you can’t uninvent encryption or make sure only the good guys have it. You also can’t have halfon/half-off encryption. It either works or it doesn’t. You can guarantee that if implemented, the bad guys will find a weakness to exploit, and it really could be game over. Find out more courtesy of the EFF: https://bit.ly/47bq0iO.