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This service really doesn't strike me as something the average consumer would use, at least not directly. This seems to be targeted at businesses, which are muc
by glesica 13y ago
This service really doesn't strike me as something the average consumer would use, at least not directly. This seems to be targeted at businesses, which are much more likely to care about potential NSA or other similar snooping.
- mattzito 13y agoHere's the reality, as I see it - most businesses, that is to say, (US) commercial enterprises that operate within the confines of the USA already comply with any and all search warrants, FISA letters, government requests, and so on. In fact, most of the traditional large enterprises in the US keep teams of people around to operate policy and software solutions solely to archive and protect data that may apply to government and civil investigations. Large enterprises are concerned about individual actors - "hackers", competitors, unscrupulous investors who want to gain access to sensitive information. If the government comes calling, they'll just give up the information, because why do they care? The vast majority of large companies in the US don't store sensitive information on behalf of their users like Google does. If Exxon-Mobil can save $30m/year by running VDI on Amazon, they will - if the government wanted the contents of any employee laptop, they'd turn it over anyway. It's end-users, service providers, and politically active organizations who don't want to put their compute on centralized infrastructure.