maxrmk

What was the cloud before big tech?

Very cool Dan, thanks for the details!

Thanks Dan, this is very interesting. From someone deeply involved in privacy I see the benefits of the auditability and risk mitigation in cases like SQL injection.

What does the risk profile look like in a full leak of the encrypted database?

If you had a column of integers are you able to order them without decrypting? Check that values are the same? Identify null values?

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what guarantees this does and does not make.

If you can run “select * where secret_col == 10”… why does it matter that the column is encrypted?

Right! Everything from word to the calculator app uses .NET these days. Even many games!

I ran into this (or a similar service) when cancelling comcast a few weeks ago. It worked _really_ well. It was slightly uncanny, but I think most people wouldn’t notice anything. It was only some awkward phrasing that made it obvious to me.

It’s easy to opt out of being indexed by Google.

I don't think this is a correct explanation of how things work these days. RL has really changed things.

Fair enough. It reads as extremely AI generated to me. But that isn’t completely reliable.

If a company relies on self reported ages, they don't "know" it well enough to satisfy COPPA. Probably. I'm not a lawyer but I do keep up with the latest in privacy enforcement and I think this is the way things are headed.

For the record, I'm against age verification laws. But I think companies are pushing for them because of liabilities they face under other laws, not because they would actually like to have the data.

Those exist! People choose to use gmail because of the scale, stability, and feature set paid for by targeted advertising.

My desire is to be able to use those products without paying for them. And to use them with friends and family members that can't pay for them.

The bill bans making access to a service contingent on consent. This would kill Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram and basically every other ad supported service. Making subscriptions the only consumer business model would be bad imo.