Re: [PLUG] Securely destroy and responsibly recycling hardware

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Paul Walker <pjwalker76@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I still imagine my hardware sitting in a landfill, waiting for the day
> > when our encryption standards have become trivial to bypass.

We've talked about that on this list in the past, the fact that your 
best-encrypted files of today could plausibly be easy to read 20 years 
from now.  Much of the encrypted data generated won't be relevant to 
anything in 20 years, and no one will care about that stuff.  But things 
of a personal nature--business dealings, relationships, etc. could still 
be very relevant and cause harm if disclosed.

20 years ago the dotcom era was getting underway and the internet really 
began to take off for the public at large (at least in the US)...people 
started committing larger parts of their communications into electronic 
format.  Is it possible the coming years will see a tidal wave of 
personal information, long-forgotten by the authors and now easily-read, 
being gone through by machines, possibly assisted by some form of AI? 
Or have I been exposed to too much dystopian-future fiction?

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Greg Helledy
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