OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by mootothemax on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:17PM (#46441206)

While I don’t disagree with you, for historical purposes I think it’s important to highlight why google started its push for 100% wire encryption everywhere all the time:

The NSA and GHCQ and basically every TLA with the ability to tap a fibre cable had figured out the gap in Google’s armour: Google’s datacenter backhaul links were unencrypted. Tap into them, and you get _everything_.

I’ve no idea whether Snowdon’s leaks were a revelation or a confirmation for google themselves; either way, it’s arguably a total breach.

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by jedberg on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @02:23AM (#46442154)

When I worked at PayPal back in 2003/4, one of the things we did (and I think we were the first) was encrypt the datacenter backhaul connections. This was on top of encrypting all the traffic between machines. It added a lot of expense and overhead, but security was important enough to justify it.

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by guelo on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @04:47AM (#46442759)

And yet Venmo, a Paypal company, publishes transaction data publicly by default, no need to decrypt anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by hrimfaxi on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:13AM (#46443491)

Venmo publishes raw unencrypted transaction data? Or are you referring to their social network features?

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by matkoniecz on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @10:54AM (#46445212)

where?

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