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Re: Zero Data App

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Post by intrasight » Mon, Mar 08, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #111

intrasight wrote: post #106

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Is that really true? Are there tech-literate folks that don't have a NAS and use VPNs? If so, count me surprised. How would you BitTorrent without a NAS configured with VPN?

With your computer without VPN? Tech-literate doesnt mean hacker. Most people dont know what NAS is.

I understand that there is a spectrum of tech-literate. Perhaps I'm on the "hacker" end of that spectrum. I've mentored my tech-literate friends on the other end of the spectrum, and got them comfortable enough to acquire a NAS and setup a VPN.

Re: Zero Data App

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Post by pwdisswordfish0 » Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 5:40 AM UTC

intrasight wrote: post #106

jeswin wrote: post #64

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Very few people have a NAS. Even among the tech literate, there aren't that many people who use SSH or VPN. If this isn't transparent to the user, you'll see very marginal adoption.

Is that really true? Are there tech-literate folks that don't have a NAS and use VPNs? If so, count me surprised. How would you BitTorrent without a NAS configured with VPN?

What if I told you that the world is bigger than your subculture?

Why do you automatically assume that someone uses BitTorrent, for example? Your comment reminds me of the dark time in our past when people who used Visual Studio just assumed that everyone else used it, too.

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