[endisneigh]

how is this sort of stuff not at least encrypted at rest?

[tremon]

Encryption at rest does nothing to prevent online access to data. It's only useful if you leave your storage cabinet standing on the side of the road.

[quickthrower2]

Your laptop backup could be encrypted. New problem: where to out the keys. Maybe another storage account with different access controls.

[pixl97]

> New problem: where to out the keys.

If it's windows, Active Directory.

[Smaug123]

Per the article, the Azure bucket was explicitly shared. Azure Storage is generally encrypted at rest (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/stora...).

[nightpool]

What do you think "encryption at rest" means