Does it really matter where the data sleeps at night when someone can simply SSH in from Beijing and hit a reporting DB?

Or, are we actually expecting Oracle to follow through with making this a trustworthy process?

Who here would now install and use their product per this news?

Important to note that the audience of this article and Tiktok’s target market are disjoint. Relevant minds need to be swayed.

> when someone can simply SSH in from Beijing and hit a reporting DB?

Does it really matter when China & Tiktok is practically connected to the same Internet?

As far as I am aware, simply being connected to the same internet does not automatically provide unfettered access to all participants' data.

At least we can now be sure the data is now safely accessible to the US goons.

Funny seeing high level management talk of sysadmins as "masterminds" whom "have access to everything"

Yeah, exactly, that's what you hire sysadmins for and specially high seniors, for them to have access to everything

Anyhow, it has been interesting seeing buzzfeed and Newsweek with their deep connections get these scoops, but I wasn't quite a fan of them for the fact that they were being misleading with the timelines of it, such as saying that ""everything can be seen in China"" when that ought have been on a past tense given than Tiktok has been working with oracle for a while to sanitize their datasets, but I guess "reality" just isn't good enough to sell clicks and outrage

One thing that is not discussed here is that Oracle offers much cheaper bandwidth compared to all other big cloud providers. Bandwidth is one area of the cloud offerings where the prices hasn't changed much. Oracle was able to attract Zoom also for potion of their backed. Getting more competition here will enable smaller players to create apps which rely more on video.

Disclaimer: I haven't use Oracle cloud, just researched it.

Bad thing you're not American. Regarding themselves, there are domestic rules, regulations and laws. For you, as a foreigner, no such protections apply.

It really doesn't matter where you're from, my country will spy on you and your country on me. Then they just exchange info. Loophole. Tada.

The poster you replied to was not defending the US's spying practices; they were saying that as a non-US resident you get spied on by the US more, not less.

From your comment you can tell you aren't really aware of what's going on. It is almost the opposite in its entirety & the condition that TikTok was able to keep operating in the US as a Chinese company.

Good lord, what an absurdly low quality comment

It is almost funny how bad it is if it weren't by the fact that we are in ycombinator