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gruezyesterday at 6:36 PM2 repliesview on HN

>A finger slip, a bug in a Windows update, or even a cosmic ray flipping the "do not upload" bit in memory, could all lead to the key being accidentally uploaded.

This is absurd, because it's basically a generic argument about any sort of feature that vaguely reduces privacy. Sorry guys, we can't have automated backups in windows (even opt in!), because if the feature exists, a random bitflip can cause everything to be uploaded to microsoft against the user's will.


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redox99yesterday at 7:09 PM

Uploading your encryption keys is not just "any sort of feature".

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salawatyesterday at 7:03 PM

What part of "We can't have nice things" do you not understand?

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