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The problem is that incentives aren't aligned. Companies don't care about your personal data they only care about your metadata, so they won't invest resources
by magnamerc 8y ago
The problem is that incentives aren't aligned. Companies don't care about your personal data they only care about your metadata, so they won't invest resources into protecting your personal security. TLS, SSH, PGP are all communications protocols, they provide no rules concerning value exchange, which is what account creation is. When you create an account on a 'free' platform, your de-facto making an exchange of data for value. The issue here is that the transaction is one-sided because there are no guarantees on personal security. If your account information follows you around the web in the form of a public key, then your in control of your personal security.