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What’s wrong with using cloud without sending any user id with the request?

by option 4y ago

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chungy 4y ago
There's likely far more identifiable information in the actual text than a user ID provides.
drewzero1 4y ago
Cloud assumes a constant, reliable internet connection, which is not the reality in most of the world. (Nor is it always desirable.)
toper-centage 4y ago
What if what I'm trying to translate is sensitive information in itself?
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."
- 0des 4y ago
  "How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time."
no_time 4y ago
In the current status quo you either make use of an api by indentifying yourself with a key or a browser session that is fingerprintable in a gazillion ways. There is no such thing as "not sending user ID" or if there is, it has a totally negligible reach.
jffry 4y ago
If the data never leaves your device, then a third-party service never gets the opportunity to leak or misuse it. This is far more private. How many stories have you heard about breaches due to accidentally mis-configured logging in web services? Also in the news lately was Twitter misusing 2fa phone numbers for advertising purposes.
vanilla_nut 4y ago
If local translation can help me use a website without a query to some cloud server... who needs the cloud? No backend that will experience downtime, and someday be decommissioned. No money sink of cloud processing pressuring the product to advertise or monetise in unscrupulous ways. I'm sure cloud processing is better in many ways. But if this is "good enough" I'd rather just do it all locally.

What’s wrong with using cloud without sending any user id with the request?

by option 4y ago

What’s wrong with using cloud without sending any user id with the request?

deleted 4y ago

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chungy 4y ago

There's likely far more identifiable information in the actual text than a user ID provides.

drewzero1 4y ago

Cloud assumes a constant, reliable internet connection, which is not the reality in most of the world. (Nor is it always desirable.)

toper-centage 4y ago

What if what I'm trying to translate is sensitive information in itself?

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."

0des 4y ago
"How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time."

no_time 4y ago

In the current status quo you either make use of an api by indentifying yourself with a key or a browser session that is fingerprintable in a gazillion ways. There is no such thing as "not sending user ID" or if there is, it has a totally negligible reach.

jffry 4y ago

If the data never leaves your device, then a third-party service never gets the opportunity to leak or misuse it. This is far more private. How many stories have you heard about breaches due to accidentally mis-configured logging in web services? Also in the news lately was Twitter misusing 2fa phone numbers for advertising purposes.

vanilla_nut 4y ago

If local translation can help me use a website without a query to some cloud server... who needs the cloud? No backend that will experience downtime, and someday be decommissioned. No money sink of cloud processing pressuring the product to advertise or monetise in unscrupulous ways. I'm sure cloud processing is better in many ways. But if this is "good enough" I'd rather just do it all locally.