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It seems absolutely ridiculous that large piles of data are being stolen by small teams of hackers. If solutions like Mylar's prevent reading of the extracted d
by jamesshamenski 12y ago
It seems absolutely ridiculous that large piles of data are being stolen by small teams of hackers. If solutions like Mylar's prevent reading of the extracted data, that sounds promising. Sure, it's just another hurdle in an attack but it's something.
I wonder if we're only a few years away where technologies and practices like this become standard?
- dangerlibrary 12y agoStandard for what? For 90% of web use cases, encryption like this is overkill. Serving a blog or static page does not require this level of security, and most e-commerce redirects to a handful of payments providers.
- jamesshamenski 12y agoRight. If the page is public, then security isn't needed. If it's gated content then a new approach is inevitable.
- justizin 12y ago"I wonder if we're only a few years away where technologies and practices like this become standard?" Businesses that store your data would likely have to stop being predicated on the ability to mine your data.