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Do you really expect to escape from that? Yes. Client-side encryption for cloud storage, end-to-end encryption for instant messaging? Now it does not matter wh
by danieldk 11y ago
Do you really expect to escape from that?
Yes. Client-side encryption for cloud storage, end-to-end encryption for instant messaging? Now it does not matter where the servers are.
This is just a show to regain customer trust, but the added privacy is marginal.
- qznc 11y ago> Client-side encryption for cloud storage, end-to-end encryption for instant messaging? You can have/do that. What is the problem?
- dewiz 11y agoIt's a positive show :-) Wrt client side encryption, how would you expect MS to run ML/SQL/DocDb/Office on their German servers without reading the data? MS offers some of those products on premise, so that's client side in my view. ie you can run Office, SQL, Service Bus, Skype, Active Directory on your own machines, actually MS still makes most of its income selling software. If there are companies not offering that flexibility those are Google, think Gmail/Docs/Hangout, and Amazon.
- zurn 11y agoEncryption does not address the security problems of "cloud" services if your threat model includes eg BND. Traffic/metadata analysis is plenty to find out what you're doing and who you're doing with. Secondly if you distrust the "cloud" service provider, end-to-end encryption for IM/storage is moot if you are still using service provider's client software for X. (This for one microsoft-applicable meaning of "cloud". It baffles me why tech people have so eagerly adopted such an ill-defined marketing term)