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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Managing digital photos is quite hard to do reliably.

Where do you store them? Optical disc, it might get mushrooms; HDD, mechanism might fail; SSD or flash, this one's better but it might get corrupted, and so on.

Cloud services provide a convenient solution to all this, than apart from the service going down (which is less likely) have no other issues. You can also access them wherever you are.

Privacy is an important concern. It would be nice to have them encrypted on cloud. Encrypted from a local and trusted (open source) client, that is also convenient. If each time I want to show a photo to my granny I have to download and gpg a file manually, I pass.

But most people don't care about their privacy at all anyways, so why bother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Encryption can brute forced

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course it can. Go brute-force a quantum resistant algorithm with a reasonably sized encryption key and call me when you're done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You just got to be overly paranoid as it will serve you better long term

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