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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is that what this would take? Then yeah, you'd hope somewhere in the process you consider this.