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Doesn't really matter - the pre-sales checkbox mumbling something about "encrpytion" was ticked, so Compliance, Legal, and SecOps are OK with it. Nothing to see

by c0l0 4y ago

Doesn't really matter - the pre-sales checkbox mumbling something about "encrpytion" was ticked, so Compliance, Legal, and SecOps are OK with it. Nothing to see here, move along :-)

pwarner 4y ago
I think most of O365 is check boxes, except for the desktop apps (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). OK Exchange Online seems OK too.
judge2020 4y ago
Same goes for IPv6 in Azure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29327773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29327773
- nijave 4y ago
  That article doesn't even mention they release new services without IPv6 support. Azure Flexible Postgres can't be ran in a virtual network with IPv6 enabled (let alone support IPv6 operating mode/addressing)
- jiggawatts 4y ago
  I realise I’m replying to a link to my own comment… In the context being discussed here it should be more clear that big vendors implement features like encryption or IPv6 purely to tick a compliance checkbox. These types of features are not supposed to be used. They’re there just to exist and enable sales to government institutions where someone who who’ll never use the product directly is ticking things off on a checklist. Another classic example is Android encryption. The marketing materials literally look like this: Encryption: Yes I didn’t realise how much of a farce this was until I saw a presentation at an Apple developer conference where they outlined the four different “rings” of encryption they do. For example, when an iPhone boots up from cold most of it remains encrypted and requires the pin to decrypt. Even if you take it apart physically before the pin entry, you can’t get at the user data! Android unlocks everything on boot, because its encryption support is “yes”. (This may have changed since then)
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Doesn't really matter - the pre-sales checkbox mumbling something about "encrpytion" was ticked, so Compliance, Legal, and SecOps are OK with it. Nothing to see

by c0l0 4y ago

Doesn't really matter - the pre-sales checkbox mumbling something about "encrpytion" was ticked, so Compliance, Legal, and SecOps are OK with it. Nothing to see here, move along :-)

pwarner 4y ago
I think most of O365 is check boxes, except for the desktop apps (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). OK Exchange Online seems OK too.
judge2020 4y ago
Same goes for IPv6 in Azure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29327773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29327773
- nijave 4y ago
  That article doesn't even mention they release new services without IPv6 support. Azure Flexible Postgres can't be ran in a virtual network with IPv6 enabled (let alone support IPv6 operating mode/addressing)
- jiggawatts 4y ago
  I realise I’m replying to a link to my own comment… In the context being discussed here it should be more clear that big vendors implement features like encryption or IPv6 purely to tick a compliance checkbox. These types of features are not supposed to be used. They’re there just to exist and enable sales to government institutions where someone who who’ll never use the product directly is ticking things off on a checklist. Another classic example is Android encryption. The marketing materials literally look like this: Encryption: Yes I didn’t realise how much of a farce this was until I saw a presentation at an Apple developer conference where they outlined the four different “rings” of encryption they do. For example, when an iPhone boots up from cold most of it remains encrypted and requires the pin to decrypt. Even if you take it apart physically before the pin entry, you can’t get at the user data! Android unlocks everything on boot, because its encryption support is “yes”. (This may have changed since then)
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