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The admins have access to your data and unless things have changed, that isn't monitored. They also bend to NSLs like any other provider. What they charge vs wh
by darksim905 1mo ago
The admins have access to your data and unless things have changed, that isn't monitored. They also bend to NSLs like any other provider. What they charge vs what things cost hurts.
- thesuitonym 1mo agoAny cloud compute vendor will have access to your data unless you encrypt it.
- cyanmagenta 1mo ago> unless you encrypt it And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract encryption keys from RAM. So, really, you need to trust the cloud provider unless everything is encrypted on computers you own.
- aaron_m04 1mo ago> And to clarify, this means encrypt it before it gets to the VPS. Just having full-disk encryption is not enough because cloud providers can dump RAM. There are tools that easily extract encryption keys from RAM. True, but at the very least, you won't have to worry about discarded SSDs having your data in plaintext.