Most folks are just going to take nudes and not strategize much and expect them to remain private as part of the typical photo taking and sharing workflow.
As an older person, I find this observation very interesting.
Today, I would consider people in general to be much more technically knowledgeable compared to people 20+ years ago. And yet, 20 years ago, removable storage was quite common, and probably expected of most devices.
I'm pretty technical (As is nearly everyone on HN), and I have no idea where my photos are stored on my Android's file system. I have no idea where the APKs are for all my installed apps, or where their saved data sits.
Very few people know how apps actually store files on a mobile device and as people increasingly use phones / tablets instead of PCs their knowledge of PC file systems reduces. So for many people, copying photos from a phone (or cloud backup) to a computer could be quite a challenge.
Disclaimer: I'm also an older person.
People are more capable but security like this needs to just be a part of the usual workflow or problems will continue to occur.
Moving files around on a device, extra steps, just doesn't work for the masses.
Admittedly, the technological world is nearly impossible to avoid exposure to these days, where it was entirely optional (or downright prohibitive) to be involved with in the past.
So in general, thank you older people for creating them, I have a lot of fun with them.
I had an 11 year old ask me what "right-click" was the other day. Yes, it sounds insane and it absolutely is. I blame the public school system.
They know only what they're exposed to, and no more.
Most devices don't have SD cards these days.
What's so tech about removing a physical piece that has data? It's an action pretty much everyone can understand intuitively - "this is where your pictures are, if you remove it they stay yours".
You know that 90% of the world doesn’t know what the word “data” means, right? (Including local variants)
But even I struggled at times to get those pictures then onto a given pc.
I know what a filesystem and a driver is, so I can make it work, if something is missing. A layperson usually cannot.
Partly on purpose, one might say. They are supposed to stay in their walled gardens, where you transfer everything over the approved cloud way and can be thankful, if their data is accepted in another garden.
But (short) pin probably isn't enough, because that means the key is still on the phone.. I'd want an extra password.
