Putting our sensitive data on someone else’s hard disk, under foreign jurisdiction, via vulnerable connections, was never an enticing proposition. While many Radboud colleagues opposed the move to Office 365 several years ago, recent geopolitical developments make it clear just how dangerous the current situation is, whereby we are at the mercy of a foreign government led by a whimsical leader, who can force a company like Microsoft to comply with executive orders, or fulfil governmental access requests to data.
Schlagwort: Wolke
Someone else’s hard disk.
And why are we doing this? Convenience.
But it really is over. Stop the nonsense of complicated and long-winded legal arguments about why it would be legal to put our citizens’ data in the US. These arguments are not only naïve—they are also no longer true.
Bert Hubert: It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds (2025-02-23)
Fern(e)wärme.
A downside of running my CI pipelines somewhere else is that I no longer hear (the fan stopping) when they are done.
Garmin Gold.
Now that all #Garmin servers are down, let me recommend GoldenCheetah, a great offline-first software to manage cycling etc. data: https://goldencheetah.org "We believe that cyclists and triathletes should be able to download their power data to the computer of their choice"
me on mastodon and on twitter (2020-07-26)
Cloudxorcism.
Im "Cloud-Exorzismus" sehen die Auguren ebenfalls ein potenziell lukratives neues Betätigungsfeld. "Eigentlich geiler Hardware" wie Amazons "Werbewanzengerät" Alexa oder Google Home, die "dicke Prozessoren" hätten, aber leider nach Hause telefonierten, könnte so "mit dem Kreuz die schlechte Seele" ausgetrieben werden, prophezeite Rieger. Das mit dem "Cloud rausmachen" sei im Kommen, bestätigte Fulda [...]
34C3: Hacker werben für Cryptocats als Update-Bonus und Cloud-Exorzismus (heise.de)
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