On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:04:34 +0200 Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote: > One thing that irks me, though, is the problem of the robust, secure > terminal: if everything is encrypted, how does one survive the > loss/theft/destruction of a computer or harddrive?
So, as has been discussed, I envision people having small cheap machines at home that act as their "cloud", and the system prompting them to pick a friend to share encrypted backups with. Inevitably this means that said backups are going to either be protected by a fairly weak password or that the user is going to have to print the key out and put it in their desk drawer and risk having it lost or stolen or destroyed in a fire. I think I can live with either problem. Right now, most people have very little protection at all. I think making the perfect the enemy of the good is a mistake. If doing bad things to me requires breaking in to my individual home, that's fine. If it is merely much less likely that I lose my data rather than certain that I have no backup at all, that's fine. BTW, automation *does* do a good job of making such things invisible. I haven't lost any real data since I started using Time Machine from Apple, and I have non-technical friends who use it and are totally happy with the results. I wish there was an automated thing in Time Machine to let me trade backups with an offsite friend as well. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
