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Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach

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Re: Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach

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https://xkcd.com/538/

That comic is irritating. Most people are far more concerned with lost devices and opportunistic theft than they are worried about targeted theft or malicious actors with wrenches. Encryption reduces the pain of the lost or casually stolen device, it doesn't have to resist a wrench to be useful.

eh, it's a comic, all the nuances of security problem are hard to fit in a two panel punchline - but highlights the same thing, that the threat model is not the same for everyone.
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