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Originally Posted by whpalmer4
Fair enough, but the data is decrypted after it emerges from the networking stack, before it gets written to the disk. If you aren't willing to trust the provider to keep prying eyes away from their disks, are you willing to trust that they can keep them away completely? It will discourage the casual snooper, but I wouldn't rely on it to stop a determined attack if your data is worth stealing.
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Agreed. Most security standards require transport encryption and encryption at rest, but data is not usually encrypted on the entire path between those two states. Most data compromises happen due to unauthorized access to data at rest.
Given a determined enough attacker, no data is secure, so I'm satisfied with keeping the bottom 95% away ;)
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It will not be encrypted as stored on the disk on the server in either case.
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To the original point, Swiss Disk does encrypt the data stored on disk.