Again:
My main Space contains highly sensitive information!
I definitely don’t want to have that whole thing on my mobile PC!!!
Of course, not ALL information are high sensitive. Most are even trivial.
But some information are somehow between trivial and sensitive. I speak about this category.
It can be:
- that picture that shows the skin irritation on my best body part.
- or it can be a list with some private tel numbers.
- or my last bills for [whatever].
- or my school certificates.
Nothing of that is absolutely top secret. It’s not a secret at all that these information exist, nor would it ruin me if one of that things leaks.
But on the other hand, these are information I don’t want to put completely in the open!
Sometimes there is need to show such things to someone “under four eyes”.
Or I simply need one of the tel numbers from that half secret list.
Anytype is “local first”.
The data is stored locally on your device, but only a bit “veiled” (not direct human readable), but not encrypted.
That’s why I don’t want to have my whole main Space on a mobile device.
I use a shared Space for that.
That shared Space contains only (or mostly) trivial information for my study. But some information are somewhere in a grey zone.
Normally seldom needed, but if needed it is needed to access them.
Everyone knows that I have a best body part. That’s not a secret.
But that doesn’t mean that I put pictures of it openly on my web page!
Nor do I want to see them later on a p()rn website after my mobile PC has gone stolen.
But if we now discuss skin problems in the study group, it can make sense to show the group (or some single members, for example the docent) such a picture - but without giving everyone full access to it.
There are many other cases where such an additional password makes sense; the things above are only simple examples to give you some ideas.
It wouldn’t destroy my life if parts of such data leak, but it wouldn’t be comfortable.
The data from my whole Space on the other hand, could indeed ruin me. I don’t want that whole stuff on a mobile device.
Nor do I want to make a big deal with encrypted containers, separated from that Anytype stuff.
The data I speak about belong into an Anytype Space and they are sometimes needed in a shared Space - but with some restrictions.
A password protected link would do the job perfectly. It’s not the highest security level, but this is not needed here.
My mobile’s harddisc has it’s own encryption, for additional security.
I don’t trust that completely, but in the sum it’s enough for my daily needs.
Btw.: What I really fear is that some bug in the future enables guests of my shared Space to somehow get further access to my main Space!
– We have already had strange phenomena that has gone vague in this direction:
Here
And here
And here
And also here
Also to mention