Remember Bush’s New World Order? It is the International Deep State and it is even worse than Trump paints the American version to be.
I wonder how much, if anything, the EU’s Articles 11 and 13 had to do with this...
Iceland-Murdering innocent babies with Down Syndrome since 2017. Ya, real green country.
Think of how much money they save by not needing a “cold room” to house the servers. They just open a window.
Ping.
As I read this I kept thinking that he needed to hire a competent Network Admin rather than trying to sort this out himself. He also needs a competent and qualified CISO.
Remember kids, cheap IT isn’t good, and good IT isn’t cheap.
I’m not sure there is really privacy any longer.
Not if you store digital data on anybody else’s systems.
Traffic still routes through whatever routers are less busy; packets can be stored for analysis later by any routing device along the way. Algorithms to generate encryption keys are often full of government back doors or directly hacked by governments, but the weakest link is data in transit.
Their storage sounds very secure, but the data has to get there from wherever you are, and that’s when it’s most vulnerable.
And CloudFlare and its content delivery network is housed out of San Francisco, easily access by the US Government.
Again, we really don’t know what’s going on in US government cyber warfare centers, but I can tell you, every military, intel, and now even agencies not associated with law enforcement or defense has them.
If the FBI can be corrupted by the likes of James Comey, or the CIA by John Brennan (both working for Obama), who’s to say other agencies haven’t gone completely rogue also?
Geothermal, if you have it use it.
This is incorrect and the author is confusing two concepts. One type of memory, ROM (read only memory) can be stored on physical media such as a hard drive.
The entire post seems a bit “off.” For example, many cloud providers allow customers to create, own, manage their own encryption keys. This is not unique to Iceland. Another issue is “stolen” hard drives — he should be focused on data center physical security ingress/egress, authorization, rack access, etc.
Plus having a server farm in Iceland makes sense. To cool the equipment, just open the window.
My one big objection is the author’s virtue signalling, multiple times, about Iceland’s renewable energy.
It is not virtuous on Iceland’s part as much as it is realistic and practical. If the whole of the U.S. was sitting, on a per capita basis, on as much natural and accessible geothermal energy as is Iceland, the U.S. too could have 100% renewable electricity. Iceland has that natural resource and it is simply most practical to use it. That is not by virtue they make that choice, it is just realistic. Praise Iceland for being practical about their energy, not virtuous.
This (below) is what protects Mr. Rossum’s servers from the bad guys in the world.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military of Iceland
Service branches
Icelandic Coast Guard
Iceland Crisis Response Unit
Headquarters
Reykjavík, Iceland
Leadership
Prime Minister
Katrín Jakobsdóttir
Manpower
Military age
18
Available for
military service
73,557 males, age 18–49 (2015),
71,172 females, age 18–49 (2015)
Reaching military
age annually
2,349 males (2015),
2,217 females (2015)
Reserve personnel
230 (ICG)
Deployed personnel
200 (ICRU)
Expenditures
Budget
US$45,529,700
Percent of GDP
0.26% (2015)
Icelandic Coast Guard, which patrols Icelandic waters and airspace, and other services such as the National Commissioner’s National Security and Special Forces Units.
[1][2][3][4] Iceland is however the only NATO member which maintains no standing army.
The Coast Guard consists of three ships and four aircraft and armed with small arms, naval artillery, and Air Defence weaponry.[5] The Coast Guard also maintains the Iceland Air Defence System, formerly part of the disestablished Defence Agency, which conducts ground surveillance of Iceland’s air space.[5][6]
Anericans have Fourth Amendment protections- in the USA, where our Constitution applies.
They lose them when the businesses take thir data OUT of the USA.
Because it’s more profitable for the business.
Surprised the businesses get away with blaming this on the government, when they’re the ones at fault.
But people are stupid.