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Old 11-23-2021, 07:57 PM   #1377
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Originally Posted by ratinox View Post
Replying to myself here having had some time to consider various implications. The problem isn't that DRM-stripped ebooks have PI in them. It's that the original files have PI in them and the devices' storage are not encrypted at rest. If a computing device's storage has PI on it then the whole thing should be encrypted. This is a compelling case for the ebook makers to get their acts together.
Wouldn't that require the user to enter a password? Every time they turn it on, or every time it wakes up?

If so then I'd use the setting to have it remember the password so I never have to enter it again. Maybe once per book might not be so bad.

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