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“Generally, I would be worried about a device either being used as an access method to my devices or as an information-gathering tool on its own,” James Loving, a security researcher affiliated with MIT, told me via email.

I’m more inclined to believe that a paralyzing fear of revealing any possible intelligence source or access method, coupled with a deeply misguided sense of the extent to which people blindly trust the assertions of the U.S. government, has led to these sharply worded but ultimately unsupported accusations.

There are numerous ways to guard a secondary access method to encrypted data.

They can accomplish this through their distributed file system which not only supports classic block and file access method, but new access methods that support object stores and Hadoop based applications as well.

The touch rate is the fraction of total stored data accessible per unit time using the typical access method and object size for the application.