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> or accept the inevitable fact that data that can be accessed is data that can be copied.

I think this is something that is orders of magnitude easier for technophiles to accept than the average person.

Because to the average person it so so easy to delete data - they press the delete key and its gone! So they look at the problem and think the computer programmers just need to do a better job.

Whereas you or I realize that it virtually is impossible to prevent access of data - at least on a systemic level, and the problem (though in some cases it is the programmer's fault) isn't something that better programmers could fix.



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