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If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine. If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.
by kibwen 11mo ago
If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine.
If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.
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- bobim 11mo agoBrillant, I'm stealing it.
- rvnx 11mo agoEven Meta approves. If it is not your data why should data protection laws apply ?
- jama211 11mo agoAnd Linus himself mostly just stores data on the cloud. At the end of the day, practicality matters.
- kibwen 11mo agoSure, you can be as "practical" as you like, just as long as you don't come crying when Apple decides to revoke your access to their data. You accept the benefit, you accept the risk.
- _vertigo 11mo agoThat’s stupid. We can have a law that protects users from bullshit like this. Lacking technical savvy should not mean you forfeit the right to your data.
- stkdump 11mo agoI think this is speaking in the absense of sufficient protections like laws. Because how does it help that a hypothetical law protects you if that law doesn't exist?
- jama211 11mo agoI think you’ve missed some context now, we’re responding to someone who is being dismissive of the pain experienced by users in these cases.
- jama211 11mo agoI bet you even store your money in a bank!
- fragmede 11mo agoIf you're a scientist at an institution, why would you need root on the cephs or whatever storage system?
- amelius 11mo agoIn that case it's the institution's data, not the scientist's personal data.