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m0xEE on Nostr: Nah, my cloud (which is a 20 y.o. Mac Mini sitting on top of a bookcase) is fine. ...

Nah, my cloud (which is a 20 y.o. Mac Mini sitting on top of a bookcase) is fine.
It's just a pun on Signal being a secure messenger, but relying on third-party infrastructure.
Nothing wrong with relying on others' infrastructure per-se, I'm not one of those full-on paranoid types — but the founders of Signal probably are. I mean, now that they have added a third "post-quantum" ratchet, the data is resistant to being brute forced by quantum computers: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/19/0546205/why-signals-post-quantum-makeover-is-an-amazing-engineering-achievement
But this improvement itself assumes that earlier data IS vulnerable to store now, decrypt later attacks — from this POV using AWS is an awful practice, so relying on others' infra is bad according to them, not me 🙃