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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by stone-monkey on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:49PM (#17544955)
I don't see their comment as paranoid because cloud providers generally aee incompetent/steal your data, but because other cloud providers are direct competitors.

Even if they're not sifting through your server data, they can possibly try to get a competitive advantage by analyzing things like usage data as someone above pointed out.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by brownbat on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:05PM (#17545566)
When AT&T was forced by law to allow MCI switching equipment in their facilities, they tended to leave that room's window open, so pigeons could nest in the equipment.

(I might have a detail wrong, this and a hundred other great telecom anecdotes are in The Master Switch.)

Always nice to make sure no parties you depend on have conflicting interests.

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