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Personally I firmly believe that in the near future local-first software is going to be the main paradigm of Internet based applications, and end-to-end encryption will be its second nature [1].

From the seminal paper, "Local-first apps, on the other hand, have better privacy and security built in at the core. Your local devices store only your own data, avoiding the centralized cloud database holding everybody’s data. Local-first apps can use end-to-end encryption so that any servers that store a copy of your files only hold encrypted data that they cannot read".

[1] Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/




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