They had me at "Use our distributed service located in over 380 countries!"
I'd like to visit their backup Earth :)
/dev/null as a Service
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Re: /dev/null as a Service
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Erm, looks like it's based in Germany to me: $ curl ipinfo.io/`dig +short devnull-as-a-service.com ` { "ip": "213.95.21.200", "hostname": "o0.n0q.org", "city": null, "region": null, "country": "DE", "loc": "51,9", "org": "AS12337 noris network AG" }
So the NSA is not only spying on the Germans, they're impersonating them to cover their tracks!
If you look carefully enough, we're all actually NSA sockpuppets.
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#53IP address is owned by NSA Fort Meade office. Possible honeypot scheme? I can't think of any other reason it would have that attractive free tier.
I don't think most people got the joke here, judging by the replies.
Guess not. Care to explain? Or is the whole joke just a "Ha! Nice try, NSA! jkjk"?
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#56I'd be wary of using this. There's no mention of their data retention policy.
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#58I'd be wary of using this. There's no mention of their data retention policy.
Privacy
We know that everyone cares about thier privacy these days. We promise we won't let
anyone have a look at your data[1].
[1] Anyone excluding the following companies and departments. Just the good guys,
you know?: NSA, Nestle, Communist Party of China (CPC),
The Coca-Cola Company, the KGB, some of your coworkers and our friends
(especially if there is something funny).
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, look at their upcoming product: /dev/random as a Service: Do you think every random-number-generator is broken? Well, we do! Simply trust us and use our numbers as your only seeding source!
Nah, that's almost useful. It could be a crowd-sourced random number stream based on noise generated by a network of mobile phones.
It's almost useful if you need random numbers that aren't secret, but it's useless for crypto, which is probably the major use of good-quality random numbers.
Re: /dev/null as a Service
#60Reminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
Oh this is brilliant. The link to the whitepaper 404'ing was extremely clever. Thanks for sharing :)
I like that the donation link is
.../error.html?aspxerrorpath=/payments/submit/s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx