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Re:MacOS 10.12.6 Source by coldtea on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:35PM (#15253904)
>If a thief breaks in to a home by breaking the door, the broken door is still evidence of a break-in. Let the addition of keys have a noticeable effect

Err, security is about preventing attacks -- not about having evidence that they've happened.

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Re:MacOS 10.12.6 Source by pritambaral on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:07AM (#15254997)
No, that's protection. Security is about foiling attacks.
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Re:MacOS 10.12.6 Source by coldtea on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:25AM (#15255311)
By preventing attacks I meant preventing them from being successful -- not preemptively preventing them from happening.

Besides, select "foil", right click "Look up": (OS X Dictionary): prevent

So, not a native speaker, and there might still be some nuance of preventing from even being considered (avert?) in "foil", and you could be technically correct.

http://static.damnlol.com/media/5c5c06b2d9e1d4e9b66725f86dab...

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Re:MacOS 10.12.6 Source by pritambaral on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:38PM (#15260111)
I meant the difference between protecting your data from destruction and securing your data against exfiltration.

The former is trivially defeated (just breaking the phone, for example, is much quicker and less involved than forcing a factory reset), and not what we were talking about.

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