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They would be encrypted. The point is privacy. Icloud gives you none. In 10 years time the NSA are going to be sucking up every single photo and email and Face
by junto 12y ago
They would be encrypted. The point is privacy. Icloud gives you none.
In 10 years time the NSA are going to be sucking up every single photo and email and Facebook post they can, storing it for posterity in Utah, analysing every single one, facial recognition and categorisation automatically.
They can have mine encrypted.
- towelrod 12y agoIn 10 years time, the NSA will be able to decrypt anything that is encrypted with 2015 encryption. And that's assuming they can't decrypt it now. Privacy is important, but let's be honest, you basically can't hide from the NSA.
- icebraining 12y agoIn 10 years time, the NSA will be able to decrypt anything that is encrypted with 2015 encryption. Will they? The standard ten years ago was AES-128/256. Are they able to decrypt it now?
- veidr 12y agoThat is probably not true -- there are a lot of things that we encrypted in 2005 that they still probably cannot decrypt today. More to the point, the NSA definitely can't decrypt everything that was encrypted a decade ago. They may be able to decrypt certain things that have somehow caught their interest. Generally, it still makes sense for all of us to encrypt by default. But OTOH a central feature of these photo services is 'easily share pics with anybody you want', so obviously they need the plaintext data to do that. I agree with junto that I would like encryption options, but I use these services anyhow because my photos just really aren't as interesting as when I was young -- mainly 100s of nearly-identical shots of babies drooling. In one sense, the NSA can have the photos of my toddler; who gives a shit. OTOH, though, it will suck when the shitty face recognition algorithms they are datamining with in 5 years generate a partial match between my son eating a rag and Jihadi John, and the feds come kick in the door to my house in the middle of the night and shoot my dog before anybody realizes what's happening... so yeah, I would just rather have it all encrypted by default.
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- fit2rule 12y agoThe NSA already have been doing this for 15 years. Any picture that goes on the wire, to any cloud or other service, is in their system..