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By: Phil Wilson

Why do you encrypt at all? A fail-safe against other security provisions not working? Are you replacing static pages (“copied to multiple frontend servers at publish time”) with dynamic (“access to the...

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By: Ian Kent

In reply to Phil Wilson. Hi Phil You’ve asked some really good questions! At a very high level – we encrypt because the data we hold is particularly sensitive, and access to that data needs to be...

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By: Phil Wilson

Interesting answers, thanks. I wonder if you’ve had any of the MongoDB issues that the Guardian team have had? https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres

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By: Ian Kent

In reply to Phil Wilson. Thanks for the link! We haven’t yet, but it sounds like most of the problems the Guardian had were around maintenance and management of the cluster, rather than problems with...

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