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> So now your house is on fire. How do you retrieve your datas from the melted local NAS ? Or a buglar come and empties it. I fully expect my possessions and m
by crabbone 3y ago
> So now your house is on fire. How do you retrieve your datas from the melted local NAS ? Or a buglar come and empties it.
I fully expect my possessions and my data to be perishable. Losing it in a fire is still better than giving it to others. I will cry a little, when that happens, but as a consolation to myself, I'll say: at least it wasn't stolen from one of those big companies and won't be used to harm anyone.
- j7ake 3y agoWhy is losing data better than “giving” it (an encrypted version if you care about privacy) to others?
- crabbone 3y agoWho says it's going to be encrypted? The service provider may screw up in more ways than one... The data that may be plausibly stolen from me alone doesn't have a lot of impact if I'm the only victim. It starts to matter a lot more if it's stolen as a part of a larger heist. Eg. if someone knows I'm saving money to buy a particular brand of car, then it doesn't matter really, but if someone knows that among a million people 3KK want to buy that particular make, they may have a valuable insight about making investments into car manufacturing industry. Of course this isn't limited to cars and investments. Suppose, someone stealing data discovers a trend in health problems which would increase demand for a certain drug... same idea.