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Re:OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents by LeifCarrotson on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:00PM (#17872834)
Right. In this case, the OCR software dev had control of the clound machines.

However, the customers that uploaded sensitive documents to this cloud OCR service did not have control of the computers, the code, or the configuration.

Yes, if you don't trust anyone you can't get anything done but this feels like the kind of task where you should be a little bit nervous each time you do it.

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Re:OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents by sixothree on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:49PM (#17873565)
This is assuming the customer would have better data protection.
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Re:OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents by mirimir on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:19AM (#17874470)
Customers would presumably not store their documents on publicly available servers.
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Re:OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents by j88439h84 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:44AM (#17874564)
The ocr company presumably wouldn't either though.
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Re:OCR Software Dev Exposes 200k Customer Documents by mirimir on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:03AM (#17874622)
Well, except that said OCR company needs to be using Internet-facing servers, and random customers don't.
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