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> This is a really neat project but it’s also not really a solution to anything.

Knowing your encrypted data is inaccessible to a thief is a huge relief, and may have saved this man's life:

A man working at Starbucks had his laptop stolen. He was killed when he chased down the thief. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/01/us/oakland-laptop-thief-starb...



Some faith in the Oakland PD to actually work property theft cases might have saved his life


In my experience with the priorities of police departments in general, this faith would be misplaced.

Not that a laptop or data is worth your life (usually).




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