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Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei... by IlikeKitties on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:05PM (#45374562)
I've personally never seen anything requiring confidential computing in anything. Is this required in the USA? I find that hard to believe, because the technology on a cloud level is still very beta-feeling. I think that Microsoft just never looked because they did not want to know.
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Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei... by hnlmorg on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:21PM (#45375859)
They have services literally dedicated to things like health data records.

But you don’t even need to go that sensitive, literally any type of online service might run the risk of handling PII. Which is why CIS, NIST et al have security frameworks that cover things like encryption at rest.

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Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei... by IlikeKitties on Thursday September 25, 2025 @01:41PM (#45376182)
But encryption at rest is not confidential compute. And Confidential compute is pretty new in terms of tech and i would be genuinely suprised if it's already required for some stuff. I am genuinely interested though, if you have any links about it please enlighten me.
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Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei... by hnlmorg on Friday September 26, 2025 @02:53AM (#45383551)
Ahhh I hadn’t realised that was a new term. I’ve got something new to learn. Thank you
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Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei... by jiggawatts on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:36PM (#45378681)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computi...
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