Interesting new tool

[patio]

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[Geek-9pm]

The article suggests that all data be 'churned'  to protect privacy. You have to read it to get the impact of what that means.
That is a very good idea. It may seem impossible, but it is not.
Someday that is the way all electronic communication will be done. When that happens, we all will have more freedom to use electronic communication without  fear that it could harm us. 

[Aegis]

Heartening to read.  Also shoots holes in my thesis that young people are just up to no good!     (I know that's not true -- we just need to see more "good news" stories.)

Thanks, Patio.

[BC_Programmer]

It's interesting but has at least one flaw- what if the recepient makes a copy of the decrypted data themselves?

Like- say- what outlook does automatically?

[macdad-]

Nice tool, but still its all the more reason not to post personal data on the internet in the first place(My dad is sticking with paying his bills through Snail Mail  )

[Geek-9pm]

It's interesting but has at least one flaw- what if the recepient makes a copy of the decrypted data themselves?

Like- say- what outlook does automatically?

You need to think beyond the present condition. Think of the future. Someday in the future if you make a copy of something for no good prose, the data will just decay. Data will be a life form. When it it dies, it rots. The cybernetic equivalent of bacteria will eat anything that is not alive and productive. This is needed to keep cyberspace from becoming a cesspool of indestructible plastic junk. Link the big mess of plastic refuse flotsam in the ocean even now.

Someday this post will self-destruct. 

[macdad-]

You need to think beyond the present condition. Think of the future. Someday in the future if you make a copy of something for no good prose, the data will just decay. Data will be a life form. When it it dies, it rots. The cybernetic equivalent of bacteria will eat anything that is not alive and productive. This is needed to keep cyberspace from becoming a cesspool of indestructible plastic junk. Link the big mess of plastic refuse flotsam in the ocean even now.

Someday this post will self-destruct. 

Sounds more and more like the Matrix...

[Helpmeh]

Sounds more and more like the Matrix...

Welcome to the rabbit hole Neo.

[Aegis]

Data will be a life form.

Not until data can reproduce itself.  Data (information) is certainly part of life forms.
You make a good point, though, that perhaps data will have to undergo a "life cycle."
(Which means, eventually, all those "Fred" videos on YouTube may actually go away.)

[BC_Programmer]

Data by definition is never volatile- only the storage mechanism used to store it.

[Quantos]

Data by definition is never volatile- only the storage mechanism used to store it.

You've obviously never met my ex.  Everything was volatile.

Good article btw.