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I realize that 'personal DRM' is this idea taken to the extreme but I am not promoting this. I am promoting something akin to "deleting a post off my blog will

I realize that 'personal DRM' is this idea taken to the extreme but I am not promoting this. I am promoting something akin to "deleting a post off my blog will probably take it off google search and out of the public eye, even if someone maybe saved it." I am always amused whenever I 'bypass' facebook privacy by hotlinking to a URL of an image and I realize that anyone who can take screenshots can archive as much data as possible. However, I think there is an important role to be had for deleting things that people haven't seen yet and (hopefully) without any explicit record of doing so. It has to do more with curbing the social spread of information rather than technical spread of information -- sure anyone can archive all posts and try to uncover deletions but that might be too tedious to do for anyone less important than a celebrity. Think of a regular website: when you delete content, it is not impossible to recover it by other means (google cache, etc) but it becomes much more inconvenient, which is often good enough. Honestly, I'm just curious if there is a socialist millionaire-esque algorithm which can protect a resource if access is revoked while retaining caching. I envision something that spreads encrypted data through a cloud but only provides specific decryption keys when requested.

joe_the_user 16y ago
What's the point? Sure, one might want to correct a typo or something but the main reason is you don't want information to go into the public eye is because it is information that the public will react negatively to. And that information that the public reacts negatively to is that information which the public saves locally, especially if they public gets used to revocation efforts. Sure you delete all your photos on your photo bucket and most will be gone but guess which photo your boss saved? I envision something that spreads encrypted data through a cloud but only provides specific decryption keys when requested. Uh, that is DRM, just not enough DRM but there's never enough DRM to do the job that DRM wants to do.

joe_the_user 16y ago

What's the point? Sure, one might want to correct a typo or something but the main reason is you don't want information to go into the public eye is because it is information that the public will react negatively to. And that information that the public reacts negatively to is that information which the public saves locally, especially if they public gets used to revocation efforts. Sure you delete all your photos on your photo bucket and most will be gone but guess which photo your boss saved? I envision something that spreads encrypted data through a cloud but only provides specific decryption keys when requested. Uh, that is DRM, just not enough DRM but there's never enough DRM to do the job that DRM wants to do.