On 30 April 2011 22:21, Mark Felder <f...@feld.me> wrote: >> You're missing the point. > > I don't see what your point is at all.
You're argument is basically like saying, "Well, I can't stop drunk people and other incompetents from driving, so there's no point in even trying to do the things that are within my power to drive safer. I mean, really, if you can't keep drunks off the road, then you may as well either never drive if you really want to be safe, or accept that you're taking risks and drive drunk too!" Or hey, we can't prevent the spread of disease no matter what, short of staying in isolation, so why bother washing our hands? And hey, we can't stop the people upriver from polluting our river with all kinds of nasty pesticides and fertilizers, so why even bother trying to grow as organically as we can? Let's just get some of Monsanto's Roundup-Ready Soy over here and douse it with several herbicides, and use lots of fertilizers and pesticides. Because even if we use normal, non-GMO plants and don't use weird pesticides and herbicides and fertilizers and do good things like crop rotation and not monocropping, we can't prevent the people upriver from contaminating our crops! I reject that. > The whole time you've been asking for > block level encryption that is cross platform instead of addressing why > using an encrypted archive for transportation is not sufficient. This should > cover 99% of your needs. They're better than nothing, but they're a mess and often fail to encrypt metadata. The primary purpose of compression tools is to compress things, encryption is just added in as an afterthought sometimes. If you have too many files and it's just too > inconvenient to use an archive then why not have the files on a secured > server with an encrypted disk and have them get the files over HTTPS or > SFTP? Either way the files will end up unencrypted on the other person's > computer whether you like it or not. > > > Regards, > > > Mark Because it's Chimayo where the farmers are more concerned about water rights than internet connections, and the internet is subsequently not suitable for running a server off of.
