On: Ask HN: Will future archeologist know about us, with everything encrypted?

[zomtorg]

Assuming that data degradation is not an issue and your data is available on a magnetic drive perhaps a future archeologist would have access to a quantum machine that would make decryption of the media possible.

[kbrannigan → zomtorg]

So in a way, old inscriptions in clay tablets, carvings in Hieroglyphs , Nsibidi and other ancient languages are technically encrypted.

We needed to decrypt them first.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that insight.