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I will ask again: The corporate data in the cloud? Sells, relationships, confidential information. I am crazy, or the world is getting ridiculous? First killing copyright. Now what? Privacy? Security?

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My guess is that most people making the decision to use ChatGPT on confidential data are low level employees looking to reduce their workload, and their bosses are happier with the improved performance (with the same salary).

Going on a tangent, the other day a friend of mine was explaining how he uses Google Drive to copy files from an iPad to a Windows laptop. He is trying hard to make sure three letter agencies have an extra copy of his data, just in case.

This is why Confidential VMs have been a cloud priority.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computi...

https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing/confidential...

Hypervisor cannot read its guests data.

What happens if there is a warrant or subpoena?

Is there some kind of "backdoor" to enable the cloud provider to grant law enforcement/intelligence/etc access? Or not?

From what I understand, theoretically with something like AMD SEV it could be configured so no such "backdoor" exists. However, is it actually set up that way in practice?

Huh? Almost everyone stores corporate data in the cloud and has for years.

So I am the only one stupid enough to have a private cloud? And the biggest and most successful corporations have trusted their intellectual property to Microsoft and Google? Boy, I am living under the rock. It is time to break all the walls. Right?

if it’s not hard for you why change?

if it is, maybe time to reconsider.

Microsoft and Google have thousands of security engineers focused on protecting your data.

Even from you https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/...

Oh, well in that case, they can access whatever data they'd like!

This would be the same Microsoft that can´t explain to the US State Department how there was a golden key floating around that allowed their email to be hacked?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-govern...

People make different decisions due to different preferences. There’s no need for melodramatic character judgements here, relax lol. You’re not stupid. People who chose differently aren’t either.

The calculation considers potential financial damage from having a cloud based security issue and most will find that the financial damage * risk < efficiency gains from just using cloud where everything is handled for you and you can just focus on your work.

Uhh, I guess yes? There's a reason that pretty much the entire internet goes down every time AWS has an outage lol.

Most enterprises still have their core systems either on-premise on in private clouds.

And the trend has been towards standardising on Kubernetes to allow for the hybrid model to work.

Microsoft already has everyone's corporate data. Always has.

Privacy has always been dead. Idk why people love it's corpse so much.

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