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Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by qubax »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #6

How come WikiLeaks is distributing this? I don't see any meaningful connection to government transparency or even corporate transparency... this has nothing to do with abuse of power, it is completely normal and rightful for a company to keep its infrastructure locations secret. Some of this could be found through public records, etc. and that fine to post, but internal operating procedures are not. Sure, it's fun to…

It's a trillion dollar company headed by the wealthiest man in the world with ties to the pentagon and owns the washingtonpost.

Why is it that whenever wikileaks leaks anything, people whine about it?

Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by ucaetano »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #18
minitel wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says it right in the article. > Currently, Amazon is one of the leading contenders for an up to $10 billion contract to build a private cloud for the Department of Defense. Amazon aims to partner with the DoD, that makes them quasi governmental.

Sure, but I'd have the same question if Wikileaks published the locations of all DoD internal server farms. What possible importance does that information have beyond its potential to compromise security?

> its potential to compromise security?

It's a bingo.

Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by sudosteph »

394549 wrote: post #22
azinman2 wrote: post #19

I’ve lost all respect for Wikileaks. How about actually leaking documents on day, I dunno, how the Chinese government is trying to brainwash Uighurs and erase their culture and religion? Instead, it’s always the US that’s been the bad guy, and now it’s not even really the government directly. There’s no cultural suppression or a larger public benefit from knowing where amazon data centers are located. What a joke.

> How about actually leaking documents on day, I dunno, how the Chinese government is trying to brainwash Uighurs and erase their culture and religion? Wikileaks legitimately may not be in a position to acquire such documents to leak. My understanding is that they mainly distribute documents provided to them by others, and has never exercised much editorial discretion. If Wikileaks is best known in the US/Western Eur…

We'll never know how much "editorial discretion" they exercise by just not releasing things that don't suit the narrative they're building. And I'm guessing it's actually a whole lot. During the 2016 US election, they implied often on twitter that they were sitting on more information about all parties, constantly hyping up more bombshells and then only releasing some one-sided nothingness. It was such an obvious attempt to destabilize the discourse, it's hard to imagine their motives were driven by anything other than the interests of a certain foreign government.

Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by fenk85 »

qubax wrote: post #31
morpheuskafka wrote: post #6

How come WikiLeaks is distributing this? I don't see any meaningful connection to government transparency or even corporate transparency... this has nothing to do with abuse of power, it is completely normal and rightful for a company to keep its infrastructure locations secret. Some of this could be found through public records, etc. and that fine to post, but internal operating procedures are not. Sure, it's fun to…

It's a trillion dollar company headed by the wealthiest man in the world with ties to the pentagon and owns the washingtonpost. Why is it that whenever wikileaks leaks anything, people whine about it?

Because wikileaks is a tool belonging to Russian state

Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by sova »

sschueller wrote: post #14
morpheuskafka wrote: post #6

How come WikiLeaks is distributing this? I don't see any meaningful connection to government transparency or even corporate transparency... this has nothing to do with abuse of power, it is completely normal and rightful for a company to keep its infrastructure locations secret. Some of this could be found through public records, etc. and that fine to post, but internal operating procedures are not. Sure, it's fun to…

Doesn't the CIA have a contract with Amazon to use AWS?

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...

Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by wstuartcl »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #21
mey wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WikiLeaks may not have the mission statement you think it does.

Insert some bullshit about working with Russia, bla, bla, bla, China, Iran, any country the U.S. doesn't like? If so, I don't think that's it, as much as the DNC would like to detract from conspiring against Sanders. WikiLeaks does have biases, sure, like Assange not liking Clinton, since she called for his droning, however if you actually read more about WikiLeaks than the surface reports, it is simply that they bel…

...

It is not about Republicans or Democrats -- the reality is that it is operating in a way where we can all be assured it is not doing so in "our" best interest, but instead for some other nation-states purpose. Just because the party you identify with seems to be helped by something they have done recently does not mean you should take them as being honest actors.

Re: Amazon Atlas: The “Highly Confidential” locations of Amazon's data centers

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Post by neurobashing »

As a resident of Ashburn, VA the locations are hardly a secret. Just about everyone in the area who cares to know, knows. I drive past the place in the header image of https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/amazo... on the way home from the Sterling Wal-Mart. My next door neighbor is an HVAC tech for Amazon, and he's only barely secretive about where they are (to me anyway). Everyone at Old Ox and Crooked Run breweries seems to know, etc.
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