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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by sp332 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:19PM (#8962320)
It's not less secure, it's just not really more secure. If you're hiding from a government, you're screwed either way.
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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by jimktrains2 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:43PM (#8962442)
Well, it prevents a single rogue employee from peeking at/stealing data. It now requires a conspiracy between employees.
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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by rdl on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @04:06PM (#8962541)
And it is way better than just leaving keys in VMs.
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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by geekbeast on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:32AM (#8964670)
From a practical perspective, yes. From a threat model perspective not really.
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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by rdl on Thursday January 29, 2015 @03:29AM (#8964965)
It protects from a bunch of lesser threats, like backups leaking keys, anyone hacking a front end box getting keys, needing to rotate keys when employees change, etc.
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