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Re:Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentiall... by im3w1l on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:14AM (#34015423)
What are the odds that some arranges for all those things to happen though? When you try to go after them they will have plausible deniability.
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Re:Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentiall... by eloff on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:56AM (#34015988)
That’s an interesting attack vector. Bribe someone to replace the disk without wiping it, and be in a position to intercept it after that.
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Re:Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentiall... by DrRobinson on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:14AM (#34038416)
This would require you or the person in the data center to know which customer is using which disk. And data isn't stored on just one disk, it's spread out over multiple disks and many customers have shards of data stored on the same disk. So even if this did happen, the would only get fragments of data.
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Re:Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentiall... by fnordpiglet on Friday December 16, 2022 @03:20PM (#34019744)
Disk management and destruction is largely automated. That’s extraordinarily unlikely.
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