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From the end user’s perspective, what would the advantages of an app without centralized storage, like these, have vs. an app with E2E encryption and traditiona
by peterthehacker 6y ago
From the end user’s perspective, what would the advantages of an app without centralized storage, like these, have vs. an app with E2E encryption and traditional centralized storage? If the end user’s data is encrypted on the service provider’s side and cannot be read without the user providing a key, doesn’t that achieve the same level of privacy from the user’s perspective?
- ForHackernews 6y agoIf the company goes bankrupt and shuts down all their servers, I still have my data.
- peterthehacker 6y agoBut if the company shuts down then they won’t be able to maintain the app anyways so as a user I wouldn’t want to use the app anymore and maybe have a copy of my data. The company could be required provide a download of the user’s data (encrypted) before shutting down.
- ForHackernews 6y agoYeah, but isn't it a lot simpler and easier if I already have a copy of my data? > as a user I wouldn’t want to use the app anymore I still have a working copy of Corel Draw 10 from like 2005.