“That was my point, as this is exactly what the big cloud vendors are doing, but on a massive scale.”
I don’t trust them and I want govt to host its own systems and to fire folks when they fail to keep it secure.
“But do understand how packets work. They still hit the firewall, and can be wrapped in http/https/smtp and other normally allowed protocols. “
We understood that and no packets passed accross the Internet-Intranet barriers without being “unwrapped” and deconstructed contents inspected in multiple ways.
We don't even fire--or punish--high-ranking FBI government employees when they deliberately lie on a FISA court warrant, commit provable election fraud, or lie about gain-of-function experiments and duplicity with Enemy China that killed millions of people globally...
Do not trust the government, and less so than even a woke company.