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Sure I am certain there is a possibility but unless you have airgapped your local instance and locked down your local network securely it does not really matter.

It’s cool to run things locally and it will get better as time goes on but for most use cases I don’t find it worth it. Everyone is different and folks that enjoy the idea of local network secure can run it locally.



Even a badly operated on-prem system has the advantage that if someone breaks in, they are taking a risk of getting caught. Whereas with Azure the TLAs could just hoover up everything there without high risk of customers finding out (assuming they can gag MS). Given the reporting about NSA's "collect everything" modus operandi this doesn't seem very far fetched.


hmm do we still have to pretend that this is some sort of conspiracy theory? really? after snowden? it doesn't "seem very far fetched", its a fact


It's less "possibility" and more "certainty."




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