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> Actually, I'd be even happier if any form of offline storage required explicit user permission anyway. Even offline storage that is only used locally? Say a
by Aardwolf 7y ago
> Actually, I'd be even happier if any form of offline storage required explicit user permission anyway.
Even offline storage that is only used locally? Say a game with savegames that has doesn't use online connection to play it.
Another example: a password manager.
- SkyBelow 7y agoI would say yes. The reason being is that exceptions will be abused, so it is better to enforce rules that everyone has to follow than to depend upon good behavior which the people we are trying to stop won't (almost by definition, because we wouldn't be needing to try to stop them with rules if they were already respectful of the social contract).
- andrewla 7y agoIf there were a way to enforce that the application has no access to any communication system (network, inter-app, maybe excluding explicit copy/paste), then I would be happy to give it permanent storage. But as soon as you allow it any access to network resources then carrying state becomes a liability.