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Do you lock the doors on your house? Why bother? Someone could break a window? Security is about identifying and mitigating threat models. For example, if yo
by dmm 5y ago
Do you lock the doors on your house? Why bother? Someone could break a window?
Security is about identifying and mitigating threat models.
For example, if you're concerned with mass surveillance an encrypted messenger will stop that.
Just because something doesn't protect against CIA 0days doesn't make it worthless.
- mordymoop 5y agoA house is almost nothing like a computer along any dimension that the metaphor could possibly make sense. Besides, unless you've built your own encrypted messenger, you're still putting trust in several agents that you have no reason to trust.