• IHeartBadCode@kbin.run
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    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
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      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.

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        4 months ago

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

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        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.

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        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?