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The opposite extreme is also worrisome: Imagine if they tried to make it totally opaque and impossible to read even by the user generating the data--that'd be a different kind of Messed Up.

P.S.: I'm sympathetic to the concept that "whole-disk encryption will protect this from most thieves", but I hope there's at least a little more defense-in-depth against other programs running as the user, snooping on that data without user-permission.

I mean, a malicious third-party screen-capture/keylogger program might be detectable by heuristics, but not-so-much if it can just indirectly draw from the stream of data being generated by pre-approved default program from the OS manufacturer...