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0 pointsxupybd4y ago0 comments

I don't Encrypt my family photos. I don't understand why anyone would?

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uzakov4y ago

Multiple reasons:

1) Someone can use those to train DeepFake models and scam your family

2) There could be private photos and videos there that you aren't aware of

3) Why not?

xupybdOP4y ago

1 and 2 will probably make sense to some. It's not something that would overcome my why not.

For 3 the biggest problem with encryption is you introduce a single point of failure, if you lose access to the keys your photos are gone. On a simpler note I'm a big fan of keeping things as simple as I can. Encryption is not simple. It can be fun to work with and I don't want to ignore that but unless you want to do that for fun I don't think it's worth the complexity.

atoav4y ago

If you use restic for backups there is not even an option to do it without encryption. Just use something simple you will never forget. Everybody has that password.

WalterBright4y ago

I don't encrypt them because then if I lose the encryption key or the encryption program or the encryption program won't run on my future machine, I lose it all.

loceng4y ago

Perhaps some family photos would include sexy time memories? Ideally those are password protected though or not included with general family photo storage..

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