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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!) And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!

Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.

The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!

I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.

I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.

Hope you enjoy My little project >:) hehe

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Put an nfc tag there, you can insert it behind the leather. Write the same key on it and that way you could tip your hat onto someonea phone for a quick transfer for later communications.

With the way you stitched it, you could easily push one of the flat flexible ones there without having to mess with the stitches

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

Thats a fucking metal idea.

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025

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