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A comment on Ask HN: Will future archeologist know about us, with everything encrypted?.

Re:Ask HN: Will future archeologist know about us, with ever... by zomtorg on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:26PM (#50310941)
Assuming that data degradation is not an issue and your data is available on a magnetic drive perhaps a future archeologist would have access to a quantum machine that would make decryption of the media possible.
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Re:Ask HN: Will future archeologist know about us, with ever... by kbrannigan on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:56PM (#50311721)
So in a way, old inscriptions in clay tablets, carvings in Hieroglyphs , Nsibidi and other ancient languages are technically encrypted.

We needed to decrypt them first.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that insight.

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