Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

Post by saagarjha » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 9:31 PM UTC

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It's not about being clever, it's about being perceptive. Apple's cloud commitment has a history of being sketchy, whether it's their government alliance in China, the FIVE-EYES/PRISM membership in America, or their obsession with creating "private" experiences that rely on the benefit of the doubt. Apple doesn't care about you, the individual. Your value as a singular customer is worthless. They do care about the wh…

> And worst off, Apple markets security. That's it; you can't go verify their veracity outside the dinky little whitepapers they publish. You can't know for sure if they have privacy violation baked-in to their system because you can't actually verify anything. Oh, boy, but this is deeply false. Apple literally provides security researchers models of their devices to verify their security claims on their most importa…

Post by saagarjha » Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 9:37 PM UTC

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Next time you "um akshually", do your homework first. > These are pretty strong guarantees, and really make it difficult for Apple to bypass. These guarantees rely entirely on trust in the hardware but it's not your hardware .

> These guarantees rely entirely on trust in the hardware but it's not your hardware. This exactly the problem that "trusted computing" is designed to solve. I'd encourage you to read for example the AWS Nitro Enclave outline here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/confidential-computing... . Nitro enclaves are similar in that they are designed to stop AWS operators from having access to the compute, even though…