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A) I think you way overestimate the security practices of most companies. I have no knowledge of WM's practices. B) That's likely still going to be a large amo
by CaptSpify 9y ago
A) I think you way overestimate the security practices of most companies. I have no knowledge of WM's practices.
B) That's likely still going to be a large amount of very usable data
- Johnny555 9y agoHaving worked at a bank that was moving some workloads to the cloud, I don't think I'm underestimating the security practices of companies that consider their company data to be valuable. In the application I was working on, they had over a TB of data, broken up into 32MB blocks, each with a unique key that had to be unwrapped by the HSM. If you stole the VM you'd get only a few blocks of readable data with it. I assume that if Walmart values this data, they'll take similar precautions in the cloud.
- CaptSpify 9y agoI'm not saying that there aren't companies that are responsible with their data. I'm saying I really disbelieve that the majority of companies treat their data this way. There's too many fly-by-night shops. My point though, is that the attack is definitely feasible. I think WM has every right to be concerned.