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Is there a danger this is from a cloud provider, not the startup, and the provider just dumped old rack parts without sanitizing them?
by keepamovin 2y ago
Is there a danger this is from a cloud provider, not the startup, and the provider just dumped old rack parts without sanitizing them?
- BoredPositron 2y agoYour data, your responsibility. No matter where you host.
- perbu 2y agoSure. A cloud provider can copy your data without you knowing, they might migrate a host from one cluster to another and copy the data along with it and I would find it unreasonable to be held accountable if they forgot to scrub the source. It would still be my problem at the end of the day.
- philipwhiuk 2y agoNo - because the startup had labelled their kit.
- rcarmo 2y agoA cloud provider wouldn't use NUCs. Seriously, they have better things to do with their time than rack and stack multiple tiny boxes with PSUs (and, apparently, external USB fans as well). Also, serious cloud providers (besides using server-grade hardware) have to follow proper equipment destruction and recycling procedures--Azure datacenters, for instance, used to have an on-site industrial shredder for disks (which were nevertheless hardware encrypted, but any failing storage was destroyed anyway).
- fragmede 2y agoencrypted at rest means no, but you're welcome to encrypt it another time if you don't believe them.
- acdha 2y agoIt’d be a huge screwup for a major provider. They promise at-rest encryption and secure disposal of media to their enterprise customers so that’d be a very expensive omission. In this case, there’s no indication of that and it’s so poorly handled that it radiates a startup winging it where they “didn’t have time” to hire anyone with a clue since the AI gold rush was right there. Given the reported healthcare data this seems like an especially bad choice.