Comment on When you tl;dr privacy policies

blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a pretty good illustration of how security measures can go wrong even if they are technically sound. The doors are doing their job of preventing light from passing through. That would be analogous to encryption working “correctly”. The mirrors are like if the program also leaks a bunch of data some other way.

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  • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I could see de-anonymizing users, but not reading data sent between them.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not a perfect analogy, but it does illustrate a point very well I think.

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