What Matthew Green thinks about data centers

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Cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he works on applied cryptography and user privacy. He writes A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering, which is where most public arguments about messaging encryption, client-side scanning and cloud backup end up being adjudicated.

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1. 7 Dec 2022

   Our readingDefault cloud backup has quietly put a copy of nearly everyone’s private papers in a few data centres, and that is a surveillance weapon.

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   Their wordsIt terrifies me, because these data repositories are not only a risk to individual user privacy, they’re effectively a surveillance super-weapon.

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