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Comment by tardedmeme

17 hours ago

I'll believe that you believe that your bank statements only need to be private for a year, when you upload all of yours until a year ago.

Sigh, that argument again. I may have used the wrong example, sorry.

How about the current temperature in my bedroom? The battery status of my robomower, Or the vat/tax and total sum I paid at a cash register for the Plopp candy bar earlier today? I could share all this with you if you want.

Depending on where you live, all these systems may, quite possibly talk over TLS and other protocols that include encryption. In some cases unfortunately encryption is the only security mechanism used, when instead device identity, authentication and message authentication is needed. And all are examples where the secrecy requirement is zero or zero after a very short time.

Better examples?