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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:38:33 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-06-26, Randall Smith <randall@tnr.cc> wrote:

> The only person who can read a file is the owner.

That's always the plan, but many a successful exploit has been based
on breaking that assumption.  If privacy actually matters, that's not
a good assumption to rely on as a single point of failure.

--
Grant