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minus-square@brakebreaker101linkEnglish1•9 days agoThis is a big difference between privacy and security.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 days agoAgreed But you can’t have privacy without security, and any privacy brand must have security in their bones.
minus-square@claudioplinkEnglish6•9 days agoYou can’t encrypt anything without a key. This is the key. If it wasn’t in plaintext then it would be encrypted. Then you’d need a key for that. Where do you put it? Phone OSs have mechanisms to solve this. Desktop ones do not.
This is a big difference between privacy and security.
Agreed
But you can’t have privacy without security, and any privacy brand must have security in their bones.
You can’t encrypt anything without a key. This is the key. If it wasn’t in plaintext then it would be encrypted. Then you’d need a key for that. Where do you put it?
Phone OSs have mechanisms to solve this. Desktop ones do not.