• Snot Flickerman
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    7 days ago

    Still there for the duration. Being encrypted just makes it akin to being inside a locked box. Being in RAM is like it being transferred in an escrow service.

    • IHeartBadCode
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      127 days ago

      I guess. Technically. I don’t usually count encrypted without the ability to decrypt as useful, but, I’ll give you the up arrow because technically correct is the best kind of correct.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        7 days ago

        Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

        A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

        • downpunxx
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          117 days ago

          all this is understood, but the access is what’s paramount, not the state of the media

        • @0x0@programming.dev
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          25 days ago

          Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

          Turn off the PC and see how well that no-matter-what applies…

          A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

          What’s the point of having inaccessible data?

        • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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          56 days ago

          No, the data is not physical, it is either magnetic or electric.

          Since most people still store their media on hard drives most media is purely magnetic.

          In a solid state drive storage chip the data is stored electronicly.