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Hosting with oracle doesn’t change a thing. Just because the data would be on US servers don’t stop the data from being accessible from outside of the region.
by aardvarkr 3y ago
Hosting with oracle doesn’t change a thing. Just because the data would be on US servers don’t stop the data from being accessible from outside of the region.
And is it really that hard to imagine a world where a hostile and ambitious nation would seek to leverage a technology platform to listen to sensitive conversations? The US has done it in the past and you better believe China will be doing it too.
- pydry 3y ago>Hosting with oracle doesn’t change a thing So when the US government made a song and dance 18 months ago about why it was absolutely critical that it be done to protect against exactly this threat you think they were lying or staggeringly incompetent? And this time they're totally not?
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoIt's better than not hosting the data in friendly or neutral turf, but you're trusting a U.S. company (Oracle) to somehow some way mitigate Chinese surveillance and algorithmic manipulation. Erecting an industrial complex dedicated to a poorly-defined and probably impossible anti-China mission on a Chinese-controlled platform, run by entities that salivate at Chinese $$$, doesn't seem like the best idea.
- Dylan16807 3y agoI thought it was a pretty dumb measure. What do you mean "this time"? I just see a personal lawsuit? But if the government did say the chinese government still has access, I don't think there would be much reason to disbelieve them. If the government claims there is a problem, and then a (possibly halfassed) attempt to fix it happens, and then the government claims the problem still exists... there is some credibility lost on the "fixing" front but the "problem exists" front is likely still credible. Especially if the different parts of that saga are coming from different parts of the government.