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Re:Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move by viraptor on Saturday April 19, 2025 @04:37AM (#43735093)
> If no one has a clue what is inside your blobs, they might as well not exist from their perspective.

This is not the perspective of actors working on longer timescale. For a number is agencies, preserving some encrypted data is beneficial, because it will be possible to recover in N years, whether any classic improvements, bugs found in key generators, or advances in quantum.

Very few people here will be that interesting, but... worth keeping in mind.

Re:Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move by bob1029 on Saturday April 19, 2025 @05:10AM (#43735187)
The point of encryption in this context is to defeat content fingerprinting techniques, not the focused resources of a nation state.