Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ...
by megous on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:20AM
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In reality data can't become private again, after being available. You may try to contact all users to delete their copy, but they may not respect that.
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Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ...
by azernik on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:18AM
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That's in theory. In actual reality, if you're making an app that has private data and is not crawled by bots, most of the time users don't save everything that they see.
Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ...
by kijin on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:54AM
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I think the parent means clients (user agents), not actual human users. As soon as any state that needs to be hidden is exposed to clients, that's a security breach regardless of whether any human eyeballs have seen it.
Re:Rxdb: A reactive database where you can subscribe to the ...
by megous on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:34AM
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This is true, too, but I meant users, too. It's all too common for users to screenshot things, etc. I see it a lot of the time on Twitter for example. You can delete tweets, but oftentimes it's pointless. But I also regularly see my gf taking photos with her phone of various apps she uses on her notebook, just to have the info around on her phone. I suspect it's pretty common, because it's much more low-tech then saving pages or API scraping.