All said and done… people should have personally controlled access to their data. For physical things, some people have safes, others use safety deposit boxes at banks. But we don’t have a digital equivalent. And the problem is that the complexity is too high for a lot of people. So something like this would be good for some people, it still won’t get the majority.
What we need is the digital equivalent of a fiduciary. Someone who is legally bound to look out for a person’s digital interests. That would allow people to trust such a person to vet simpler wrappers around set ups like this, or anything.
The encryption is meaningless unless someone physically take the drive. The os has the key, and M$ owns the OS. So it can read that data anytime it wants. So can anything running on the machine generally.
It’s mostly theater.
But yes, my point was that people don’t want to because it is too much work. It needs to be easier.
All said and done… people should have personally controlled access to their data. For physical things, some people have safes, others use safety deposit boxes at banks. But we don’t have a digital equivalent. And the problem is that the complexity is too high for a lot of people. So something like this would be good for some people, it still won’t get the majority. What we need is the digital equivalent of a fiduciary. Someone who is legally bound to look out for a person’s digital interests. That would allow people to trust such a person to vet simpler wrappers around set ups like this, or anything.
Most peoples’ computers and phones have encrypted data storage by default now.
They are the digital equivalent of a safe.
But most people do not want to own, manage, back up and store their own data.
Just like most people do not own or think they need a safe.
The encryption is meaningless unless someone physically take the drive. The os has the key, and M$ owns the OS. So it can read that data anytime it wants. So can anything running on the machine generally. It’s mostly theater.
But yes, my point was that people don’t want to because it is too much work. It needs to be easier.