I strongly disagree. That's like using MD5 and saying 'It's OK, we use SHA256 down the line'. Information encrypted with it might as well be in plain text.
scorpionix
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Forget about biometrics, they are way too insecure.
Our cameras have reached a stage where we can replicate fingerprints from photos. 'What you are' is useless when we leave part of us everywhere. And furthermore, in parts of the world, authorities can force you to unlock your device with biometrics but not with passwords.
But then again look at how many fossiles there still are. And those are all biologically, easily degraded.
You got that one the wrong way around. These fossiles are still here because of the special environmental circumstances in which they formed. Most biological matter decomposes without a trace.
Like suddenly there is plastic in the sediment layers …
If we were to go extinct today, these layers would be incredible thin. 12 k years of human history is a blink of an eye in terms of geological timeframes and for most of that we didn't produce long lasting materials.
If we are talking millions of years it will become more and more unlikely that there will be anything left to find. In those timespans new geological formations happen.
Look at fossils as example. Yes, we have quite a lot of them but they stretch over a couple hundred million years, so imagen the things we don't know about these periods. Now consider that modern humanity has been around for about 12 k years and the chances of researchers finding remains of our infrastructure in many million years by chance become tiny, just like the layers of sediment containing our remains.
What's imho a lot more plausible is, that future researchers might find traces of our lasting impact on the atmosphere aka climate change in Arctic ice and wonder what caused it, prompting them to dig around in geological formations from our period which then might lead to some discovery.
Tell me about it ... 🤷
*second to last!
The last spot is reserved for us, Germany.
No backup? No mercy!
I thought I lived in a pretty backwards part of Germany but your corner must be extremely off the grid!
To just name one example in Germany: Verification via robo call in WhatsApp.
Jerboa? The link is malformed for me as well
Ehrm yes, that's also 'real' coal. There are multiple types of coal.
AFAIK it won't and should you still get a bottleneck you can limit the maximum resources a service may use.
Germany checking in: The chancellors wife at the time having ties to the copper industry doesn't help either.