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Comment by JumpCrisscross

9 days ago

> Since Snowden, we have hard evidence the NSA has been snooping on foreign governments and citizens alike

We also know this is also true for Russia, China and India. Being spied on is part of the cost of relying on external security guarantees.

> Not that other countries are inherently more trustworthy, but the US is a known bad actor

All regional and global powers are known bad actors. That said, Seoul is already in bed with Washington. Sending encrypted back-ups to an American company probably doesn't increase its threat cross section materially.

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9dev  9 days ago

> All regional and global powers are known bad actors.

That they are. Americans tend to view themselves as "the good guys" however, which is a wrong observation and thus needs pointing out in particular.

> That said, Seoul is already in bed with Washington. Sending encrypted back-ups to an American company probably doesn't increase its threat cross section materially.

If they have any secrets they attempt to keep even from Washington, they are contained in these backups. If that is the case, storing them (even encrypted) with an American company absolutely compromises security, even if there is no known threat vector at this time. The moment you give up control of your data, it will forever be subject to new threats discovered afterward. And that may just be something like observing the data volume after an event occurs that might give something away.