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[–] ohnoitsaninja 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

If you are using the internet they can see it. You shouldn't assume privacy when you outsource your computer needs to other people's computers. You shouldn't assume privacy when you know your CPU is backdoored, your OS is further backdoored. It's much worse than the guy in this post realizes. Basically don't trust any modern computers as far as you can throw them.

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[–] Khaos 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago  (edited ago)

What a fucking moron, that story is total BS. A hardware jockey in a datacenter would not be access to log into the machines, much less have root access to it with "a special command called sudo". That story reads like a 12 year old wrote it.

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[–] embers 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The purpose of sudo is precisely to allow normal users to execute commands that require elevated privileges without giving them root access. For example a backup operator might be allowed to issue a command that backs up the system partitions.

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[–] Hmmm 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He's actually right. Data Techs in amazon do no have shell access to hosts.

They have access to switches and routers, and they can move hardware around, but most can't log onto parent hardware hosts, and definitely not onto VMs. A data tech should not be able to see what is running on a hw parent.

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[–] redditsuxbad 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

This is exactly why companies like Sia are going to be wildly successful.

Decentralized cloud storage? Encrypted and secure and immutable?

I don't see how the NSA could spy on something like Sia.

We need more decentralized services sooner rather than later.

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[–] ohnoitsaninja ago  (edited ago)

Encrypted with what? Algorithms which they had broken and built giant dedicated hardware decryptors for before you ever heard of the algo? People grossly underestimate deep state cryptographic capability.

Assume they have unlimited storage and are recording all of everything, specifically internet traffic, and have the tools to go back and review anything at any point in time.

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[–] redditsuxbad ago 

Meh, I'll stand by what I say.

It is freedom of speech after all. The most vile and heinous speech is the speech that deserves to be protected.

Without it, there is no more freedom.

I say things I don't mean, but I say them just to say them. What good is freedom, if we don't exercise the right?

Having said that, niggers are violent yet lazy and kikes are dirty schemers and motherfuckers bent on destroying anyone non-Jewish.

Like Muslims, but without the goat raping.

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[–] Naught405 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

xfinity voice remote: yea, let me put an RF microphone device in my living room. Totally falling for it...

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[–] 9987878? ago  (edited ago)

AT&T and verizoon are a quasi duopoly allowed and favored for the very same reason

FB is likely in the same boat

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[–] embers ago 

The CIA uses Amazon to exfiltrate data from computers infected with their malware. Nobody blocks Amazon IPs and nobody suspects malware behind a connection to AWS.

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[–] GIF-lLL-S0NG ago 

The 3rd Party Exemption to the ECPA allows AMZN to get PAID compensation for providing those datum to USGOVT, no warrant required?

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[–] throwaway_log 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I wouldn't be surprised if services like digital ocean are also in on it.