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There is some, albiet limited, use: a) It protects your data from hard-drive theft. Not an especially common occurrence in Amazon or Google scale datacenters b)
by GauntletWizard 13y ago
There is some, albiet limited, use:
a) It protects your data from hard-drive theft. Not an especially common occurrence in Amazon or Google scale datacenters
b) It segments out the storage admins at your cloud-hosting provider from being accidentally granted access to your data. Useful from a principle-of-least-privilege standpoint.
- michaelt 13y agoSeems to me these claims of encryption are like selling full outfits with bulletproof socks and telling customers they're buying bulletproof clothes. It's technically true, and it does offer protection against a minute range of threats, but it's mostly dangerous snake oil that'll end up with people who think they have protection when they don't.