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Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by aphextron »

colmmacc wrote: post #156
benevol wrote: post #101

> Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. - Amazon, PRISM partner

"Amazon never participated in the NSA’s PRISM program." - Stephen Schmidt, CISO @ AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/privacy-and-data-secur... (Full disclosure: I work on AWS}.

>"Amazon never participated in the NSA’s PRISM program." - Stephen Schmidt, CISO @ AWS

As true as this may be, the only acceptable form of privacy guarantee is through cryptographic algorithms and open source software. Anything else is a fantasy tale.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by docdendrite »

Zach_the_Lizard wrote: post #170
colmmacc wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Amazon never participated in the NSA’s PRISM program." - Stephen Schmidt, CISO @ AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/privacy-and-data-secur... (Full disclosure: I work on AWS}.

And what do all the PRISM documents say? You don't admit this as it's bad for business.

They say corporate data centers were surreptitiously wiretapped.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by saycheese »

Zach_the_Lizard wrote: post #170
colmmacc wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Amazon never participated in the NSA’s PRISM program." - Stephen Schmidt, CISO @ AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/privacy-and-data-secur... (Full disclosure: I work on AWS}.

And what do all the PRISM documents say? You don't admit this as it's bad for business.

Amazon wasn't listed on the PRISM partners slide. What documents are you referencing?

EDIT:

General info on PRISM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

"PRISM Partners" slide: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by manmal »

colmmacc wrote: post #156
benevol wrote: post #101

> Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. - Amazon, PRISM partner

"Amazon never participated in the NSA’s PRISM program." - Stephen Schmidt, CISO @ AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/privacy-and-data-secur... (Full disclosure: I work on AWS}.

VW executives were all lying about knowing about their emission "optimizations". You can't believe any statements.

Re: Amazon Chime

#175

Post by discordianfish »

colmmacc wrote: post #156
benevol wrote: post #101

> Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. - Amazon, PRISM partner

"Amazon never participated in the NSA’s PRISM program." - Stephen Schmidt, CISO @ AWS https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/privacy-and-data-secur... (Full disclosure: I work on AWS}.

Don't Google, Apple, Facebook and friends all say the same?

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by disiplus »

tlianza wrote: post #79
krashidov wrote: post #17

Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I'm astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I'm really surprised Google didn't go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.

I'm not sure where the optimism comes from. I too have been surprised at how mediocre most conferencing software is, and concluded that it's probably harder than it seems. What would great videoconferencing software look like, and what are the odds that this is it?

realtime protocols depend a lot on where are you and where are the participants, and even if you cover everything else you have random things that you have no influence on. like what route does your traffic go, how is the buffer set up on this route and so on.

i had to debug voip and outside of some simple things like not enough resources/bandwidth it can be really frustrating.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by Zach_the_Lizard »

StavrosK wrote: post #169
[deleted] wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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He wouldn't voluntarily make a comment lying about it either.

If it was classified information, he would likely not be able to admit it. After double checking, the slides do not mention Amazon.

Amazon could be involved with spying though, just not under the same program.

We'll never know for sure. What a world we live in.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by Zach_the_Lizard »

saycheese wrote: post #173
Zach_the_Lizard wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what do all the PRISM documents say? You don't admit this as it's bad for business.

Amazon wasn't listed on the PRISM partners slide. What documents are you referencing? EDIT: General info on PRISM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) "PRISM Partners" slide: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

I double checked and you're right, they are not mentioned. I could have sworn they were.

I stand corrected.

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