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A comment on Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years. Parent comment

Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by cbuq on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:47PM (#18941728)
"The Cloud" is like storing your data with skywriting, you can see it from many locations, but so can your neighbors
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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by dymk on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:51PM (#18941777)
A very poor analogy when encryption exists
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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by mikestew on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:01PM (#18941863)
Who said skywriting can't use encryption?
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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by dymk on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:25PM (#18943683)
What skywriting uses encryption? How is that a useful metaphor for describing the downsides of "cloud storage"?
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Re:Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years by setquk on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:21PM (#18942065)
For the average cloud platform it is totally insufficient to protect you from a bad actor or stupid programmer at the provider.

Imagine if IAM had a major vulnerability suddenly...

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