Comment by usrbinbash
13 hours ago
> If you walk away from an unlocked machine
...then I might as well ask what happens when I walk away from the encrypting edior while a file is still open. User Error can happen with any encryption or security schema. Pointing out a trueism is not an argument.
> It's also portable
So is encrypting files using a specialized tool. I don't need my editor to do this. The entire point of my criticism, and indeed the entire point of this thread, is that software that should focus on a narrow task, tries to do way too much, leading to problems.
For what it's worth I understood the argument and think it is valid. It's one thing for the file you're working on to be vulnerable if you walk away leaving the editor open; it's another for all of your other files to be vulnerable too. It's O(1) vs. O(n). The difference is clearly not zero.