GAFAM Datacentres Are Facilities of War, So Risk of Downtime by Missiles or State-Sponsored Cracking Has Vastly Increased
9 hours ago:
In IRC, to quote a message by psydroid, a few minutes ago: "Microsoft strykes [sic] again"
From "Geneva Convention - Article 52 - General protection of civilian objects" (blocked by gratuitous JavaScript):
"2. Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives. In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage."
The "tl;dr" is, according to an associate, "AWZ, Azure, etc are fair game because the military "outsources" to them."
Our uptime this year and last year was a lot better than "clown computing" and all those GAFAM hosting plans. We hardly had any downtime at all (maybe a few minutes all combined, due to reboots for updated kernels).
Now, there's a real risk not only of downtime but also data breaches and data loss.
How safe is your business in "clown computing" or DCs marked as some "legitimate targets" at wartime? █
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