• Veltoss@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So is pretty much all of the cloud services the average user already subscribes to. People still use them though.

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      9 months ago

      Agreed. This is especially bad, though, because if it’s compromised they basically have hardware-level access to your machine. Unless you’re using encrypted swap, and I’m not sure how standard that is.

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        9 months ago

        Well, assuming you’ve already gone through the effort to write a custom kernel module to offload your swap pages to Google Drive, it doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch to have it encrypt the data before transmitting it.