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0 pointsgpm6y ago0 comments

> can you imagine the scandal that would erupt if Google or AWS cloud was discovered to be eavesdropping on companies running things in their cloud

Remember the "SSL added and removed here" image?

https://thumbs.mic.com/MTBjNTQzNTMzZiMvbWVtejZOdjJsaUdUVkZEa...

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UncleMeat6y ago

That wasn't eavesdropping by Google. That was Google not using encrypted traffic on internal wires. And that changed a lot of years ago.

gpmOP6y ago

Yes, it was the US government eavesdropping for them without their consent, but the end result is basically the same.

Yes, that exact hole was patched, but the point is it wasn't the end of the world that great grandparent implied it would be.

lern_too_spel6y ago

Google Compute Engine didn't even exist at the time that slide was made, or at least was not publicly available. That slide was about government intercepting Google's traffic, not cloud customer traffic.

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dependenttypes6y ago

I am pretty sure that this is a reference to cloudflare.

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