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We all ought to be using Qubes OS! We, as the Hacker News community, ought to be more concerned about making it easier to use reasonably secure systems. How do I buy a computer that runs Qubes? https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/
This seems overly hyperbolic and alarmist. I do not think the sources prove the scope of breach the post asserts ("all of Microsoft"), seems more like a temporary key leak that was subsequently revoked.
Microsoft has some of the worst security vulnerabilities and practices I have ever seen. I can’t for the life of me figure out how executives at big Fortune 500 move their workloads to Azure.
The only selling point Microsoft has for Azure in some domains is that Amazon is their competitor. I wish Amazon just let AWS be it’s own thing.
I also hope that Microsoft step up their security game but at this point it’s kind of a lost cause.
We all ought to be using Qubes OS! We, as the Hacker News community, ought to be more concerned about making it easier to use reasonably secure systems. How do I buy a computer that runs Qubes? https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/
Give it a few years and then on-prem hardware and simple server hosting will become fashionable again.
On-prem is very expensive compared to cloud.
„Normal“ people will not read this, nor be able to understand, nor gauge or grasp the impact. It’s become way to complex. We can’t simply stop using mentioned services anymore as a society.
Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to teach:
1. You have no privacy, it is impossible to ensure or guarantee privacy, and there’s no incentive at all for anyone to ensure privacy. (Scott McNeally of Sun said that already in the late 1990s)
2. There is no security and every kind of security has been, was designed to, or will be compromised.
3. All your digital information is already public or will become public at some point. (btw: Every top-tier consultancy operates under that assumption)
We all ought to be using Qubes OS! We, as the Hacker News community, ought to be more concerned about making it easier to use reasonably secure systems. How do I buy a computer that runs Qubes? https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/
Give it a few years and then on-prem hardware and simple server hosting will become fashionable again.
On-prem is very expensive compared to cloud.
Give it a few years and then on-prem hardware and simple server hosting will become fashionable again.
Now I have apps where I need 15 minutes of maintenance a year, install and configuration takes 5 minutes.
Some cloud providers have amazing stuff, but I feel they all start to bloat and I don't have use cases that need whole clusters.
I read a good analogy recently: The titanic (cloud) is sinking, the engine room is already full of water, but the people in the ballroom (execs) are still celebrating with champagne, even though the warnings have been called multiple times.
I'm not saying cloud computing is the solution to every problem, and nor should it be, but calling it a sinking ship is simply absurd.
Frankly, I grow so tired of people thinking everything is a boolean choice. The real problem with the cloud is people who see things as binary statements: "cloud is cheaper", "cloud is more expensive", "self hosting is easier", "cloud is easier", "cloud is more secure", "on-prem is more secure", etc. All of those statements are true just as all of those statements are false. The reality is far more nuanced and it depends entirely on the constraints of your business at that point in time. Such as what engineers / skill sets do you have on your team? Capital to buy hardware, your physical location, the product you're trying to build... etc.
But the problem with nuanced arguments is they're subjective to the immediate problem you're trying to solve. So you cannot debate them with other people as those other people are trying to solve different problems with different teams and different tools. And thus we end up with people posting bullshit blanket statements like "the cloud is a sinking ship" or the linked article that boasts that the cloud is less secure.