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Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped (www.pcmag.com)

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'The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,' Moxie Marlinspike says at Black Hat. 'We were just wrong.'

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Re-installing an OS is easy

Hmmm, this is where our opinions diverge. It's easy when things go right. UEFI and MBR changed that. And I've had a few linux installations fail for obscure reasons (mostly hardware support).

Installers also say "backup your data" but if you're coming from windows, what do you do when your stuff is on onedrive? What if you know nothing about partitioning and the installer just wipes the entire disk clean even though you expected your D:/ with your backup to be kept?
Oh, an should you keep that windows recovery partition? What's on there? How do you access the data to check?

There are a bunch of things to consider when installing to prevent data-loss and IMO they aren't as straightforward as they seem.

Doing a regular system update or upgrading from one LTS release to another are comparable to oil-check and changing a tire. Installing an OS, IMO, not so much.

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