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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like this might be a giant gaping security risk.

[–] Veltoss@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is pretty much all of the cloud services the average user already subscribes to. People still use them though.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. This is especially bad, though, because if it's compromised they basically have hardware-level access to your machine. Unless you're using encrypted swap, and I'm not sure how standard that is.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, assuming you've already gone through the effort to write a custom kernel module to offload your swap pages to Google Drive, it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to have it encrypt the data before transmitting it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Is that what this would take? Then yeah, you'd hope somewhere in the process you consider this.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously you should set up device mapper to encrypt the gdrive device then put the swap on the encrypted mapper device.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If your kernel isn't using 90% of your CPU resources, are you really even using it to it's full potential? /s