The use of complex applications or setups, especially by those who lack a fundamental understanding of them can lead to breakages, misuse or complete catastrophic failure. Encryption, anti-forensic systems and other system securities are all extremely sensitive tasks depending on your use case. In a perfect world these systems would be trustless and bulletproof, but that isn’t the case the vast majority of the time.
There exist large swaths of information about plausibly deniable encryption, including its setup, use cases, order of operations and even sources that gloss over caveats or flaws in the system. These sources can be great for initial setups or ideas for further research but they often read like the personal notes of the author and lack background knowlegde the author has on the subject.
What most people lack isn’t information, its wisdom. Improve your understanding, dig as deep as you’ll let yourself. Never trust a resource completely, verify the tools function as intended and learn to fix them when they inevitably don’t. People are quick to discard their own wisdom for seemingly “official” sources, dont fall for it. Don’t blindly copy the practices of others, the value of your own insight is more valuable than it seems.
Ultimately, people use complex systems for an end goal, not the journey of understanding every technical detail. But I urge you to delve 1, 2, 5 even 10 levels below the surface, beyond the source until you feel you fully comprehend the system that you won’t screw it up. TLDR: RTFM!!!
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