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Ask HN: What things should we encrypt that we might not think to?
Eg emails, messages, HDD contents.
What are other things that might severely reduce privacy if not encrypted?
CLOUD Act inspired :(
- rajasuba 9y agoEncrypting more sensitive information like account password, credit card numbers (if you are going to store it somewhere) is primary. Encrypting the data stored at rest in hdd's are necessary too. Other than this encrypting processed data or meta data information can considered to be secondary..
- joefarish 9y agoDNS traffic
- tomerbd 9y agoWhich things do you encrypt that we should not ;) ?
- anotheryou 9y agoEven before encryption, just what is plain public is scary. I'm really worried of AI scraping all my social media profiles and linking them together. As soon as AI understands more of the content, it will be easy to tie accounts together by obscure data points like "active on HN and has been in a small village in southern brasil in late 2012." Anything that is public by default is a problem, especially if combined with the private messages of whatever you use most (FB/whatsapp/telegram).