Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
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Truthfully, I know *what* they are, and I am well aware of Cisco's reliance on
an operating system that makes Quantum Dynamics in Frenchian n-space read like Pratchett.
Maybe the previous owner's configuration is still on the device, and it can be
massaged and recompiled for my porpoises. It was cheap, after all.
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The Cisco ASA is a firewall device.
They somewhat of a pain to setup, depending on how old they are. There are much more user friendly devices out there these days.
I've set up one or two in my day - but it's been years since I booted one up in anger.
DaZZa
Incidentally ... anyone know how to configure a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance?
I am rather assuming that it isn't some kind of safety harness, after all.
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There is no back door in Micro$oft operating systems ....
...... They just leave all the Windows open.
The Cloud? is not "someone else's computer" .... it is several someone else's computers!
As I said earlier, I just got a hold of a stack (literally) of older HP servers, and I'll be setting up my own cloud (which I'm going to term a Local Fog Bank).
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Dazza, ? I assume that everything that leaves my PC is read by, at least, GCHQ and the NSA and I¡¯m in the UK. ? I have a hardware firewall appliance that will keep most stuff out, except for the back doors that I assume the NSA got Microsoft to put into Windows. ? Mark ? ? I've been in IT for 35 years, and the increase in reliance on "the cloud" dismays me. I have a mug at work that reads? "There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer" I'm also not in the US - and the complete disregard US government agencies seem to take with other people's data - even if they're not US citizens - gives me very little trust in the sovereignty of cloud data storage. ? While it has its usage, I think the way Cloud Storage is being pushed
only benefits the companies that are pushing it, to the detriment of the
users.
Yes, it has its uses, as a backup location, but it should almost never
be your primary storage.
If it is your primary storage, such as somebody sharing a computer with
other people, there should be a backup somewhere more local. Having an
on-site server your company owned would be far smarter.
On 4/29/2022 9:55 PM, Icemanau wrote:
> My biggest concern with the Cloud is location.
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> I'm in Aus and if the cloud servers are in the US, and what I'm working
> on is considered to be against the export laws of the US, I could very
> well loose all access to it.
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> That's on top of all the other problems l can see.
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> If you are working from the cloud and your internet goes down due to
> some idiot digging up the cables, your screwed until they get fixed.
> Tasmania had this happen. Both cables got cut in separate instances on
> the same day. End result, Tassie basically shut down until it was up again.
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> Ease of access for anyone and everyone with the know how to hack in to
> the cloud server.
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> What happens if the server location is taken over by hostile forces
> (Ukraine anyone?).
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> I'm sure that there are lots of other problems with using the cloud that
> I haven't listed as well.
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