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It's a handy feature to have in the protocol if you're operating detached networks using it, and can control all the clients. If you're using it as internal inf
by wharvle 3y ago
It's a handy feature to have in the protocol if you're operating detached networks using it, and can control all the clients. If you're using it as internal infrastructure. Which, personally, is the only way I've ever been interested in using these sorts of things.
You're right that it's nigh-meaningless for a public cluster.
- ynniv 3y agoOk, but where exactly is that when the FBI is pulling Bitcoin private keys out of files accidentally synchronized to iCloud Files? These are hard problems.
- wharvle 3y agoI don't understand your concern. Guaranteed (if you control the clients, for ordinary values of "guaranteed", not, like, mathematically-rigorous ones) deletion is a handy feature if you need to be able to comply with regulations, or just want to be sure you're not wasting disk space on stuff you intended to delete, without having to do extra work. Attackers are a whole other matter, and their existence doesn't make the feature pointless, for the above reasons.
- ynniv 3y agodeletion is a handy feature if you need to be able to comply with regulations This is a good point, and "GDPR compliant erasure of data" would be a great way to explain it. As a user I can guess what that means, and as an engineer it doesn't sound like magic.