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    it physically lives in your RAM for the duration of the stream.

    It physically lives encrypted in your RAM and only temporarily. Remember TPM exists.

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      Still there for the duration. Being encrypted just makes it akin to being inside a locked box. Being in RAM is like it being transferred in an escrow service.

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        I guess. Technically. I don’t usually count encrypted without the ability to decrypt as useful, but, I’ll give you the up arrow because technically correct is the best kind of correct.

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          Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

          A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

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            all this is understood, but the access is what’s paramount, not the state of the media

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            No, the data is not physical, it is either magnetic or electric.

            Since most people still store their media on hard drives most media is purely magnetic.

            In a solid state drive storage chip the data is stored electronicly.

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            Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

            Turn off the PC and see how well that no-matter-what applies…

            A document locked inside a box that I personally don’t have a key to doesn’t make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

            What’s the point of having inaccessible data?