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  • In addition to everythong everyone has said, one major thing that people often don’t think about privacy is how it relates to enshittification.

    Modern software services try to optimize everything to make as much money as possible. Everything is a/b tested, and whatever increases some arbitrary metric is what gets released.

    They do this by tracking a ton of metrics about how you interact with everything. I know where I work we collect data about every time you click on anything, how long you hover over buttons, etc.






  • When you normally delete a file, it doesn’t actually delete it, to save time it just marks the space as free, so any new files can be written into that part of your drive.

    But the actual data just remains there until a new file is written to the storage.

    SecureErase does the second part without making an actual file.

    Normal delete:

    File: 01010101 -> no file:01010101

    Secure erase:

    File: 01010101 -> no file:00000000











  • I guess it would work, as long as you’re using an up to date zip implementation with AES-256 encryption. I guess my question would be why bother? Being compressed doesn’t add any real additional benefit, since just using text shouldn’t take up much space.

    Is recommend just using an actual password manager for convenience, since you aren’t really gaining any security by only storing your passwords in a file.