• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Still there for the duration. Being encrypted just makes it akin to being inside a locked box. Being in RAM is like it being transferred in an escrow service.

    • IHeartBadCode@kbin.run
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      I guess. Technically. I don’t usually count encrypted without the ability to decrypt as useful, but, I’ll give you the up arrow because technically correct is the best kind of correct.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        10
        ·
        edit-2
        4 months ago

        Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

        A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

        • stoy@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          4 months ago

          No, the data is not physical, it is either magnetic or electric.

          Since most people still store their media on hard drives most media is purely magnetic.

          In a solid state drive storage chip the data is stored electronicly.

        • downpunxx@fedia.io
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 months ago

          all this is understood, but the access is what’s paramount, not the state of the media

        • 0x0@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 months ago

          Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

          Turn off the PC and see how well that no-matter-what applies…

          A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

          What’s the point of having inaccessible data?