There is less of a chance that the Colo or shell account you are using to run psybouncer will hand over anything to anyone before you wipe the machine than there would be directly connecting to a VPN service. I think this is addressed to average Joe Americana who clicks the protect button in Facebook.
I've made this argument several times. I'm a psybouncer sort of guy. #shellz
It is super easy to get a 2 dollar a month shell account and run psybouncer with a list of hosts you can hide behind. At least then I can double proxy cheaper.
There is a well-known association between the Godfather movies and oranges. For example, Don Vito has an orange slice in his mouth when he dies in the garden. And yes, the fruit stand scene. There are many more examples.
I'm not too familiar with Mario Puzo's novel and use of oranges but it would be fascinating if there was somehow an innate link between the use of oranges in the movies and the origins of the mafia (what this paper is claiming).
as opposed to... putting all of our eggs in any number of CA baskets, where the CA's are basically random companies of random ethics in random locations and where the loss of any one of our eggs means the loss of ALL of them?
At least one major commercial CA does offer ACME to paying customers. If you want ACME and want to use their CA, and have whatever their entry level enterprise price is burning a hole in your pocket, they will take your money.
They basically position it as "As well as integrating with Windows we also make everything work automatically with your weird Unix stuff like Apache or nginx" but it's an ACME service under the hood.
ACMEv2 (the Internet Standard RFC when that finally gets published) is a bit nicer for a commercial CA because it spells out how you use ACME to say e.g. "Hey, I'm paying customer #383829, here is proof - give me certificates on my account". The only easy way this could have worked in ACMEv1 wasn't terribly compatible with the limited understanding of cryptography that say Steve in accounting has.
To the Aussie's credit the infrastructure and the regulations instilled on businesses there have always been Federally imposed.
Since the mid-90s the government has imposed many regulations for control that has impeded much of the free market progress for network infrastructure. Those regulations coupled with needed external transit installations have not helped. For a long period of time the government would pick and choose companies based on their ideals rather than their talent. This has hindered progress from both sides of the fence by liberal and conservative administrations.
I ran a semi successful ISP and consulting company for a decade in the US and I have always enjoyed the tiering system we setup vs other country Infrastructures. It wasn't until recently when the FCC gained control that states started to use the new regulation power to hinder progress. I am still on the fence about the whole thing because the exploitation has not been bad in my area but the horror stores I have heard in other states make me sad. Hopefully it will get back to normal.
I'm not personally sold on the baby bell model of regional monopoly. I think the whole FIOS debacle, and what happened when google started offering citywide fibre says a lot about how US telco industry operates. Lobby your way to the people who make rules and then get rules passed to shut down anything which freaks your own monopoly of indifference.
What was the "whole FIOS debacle, and what happened when google started offering citywide Fibre"?
Why the down votes? This sounds interesting, but I am not sure what to search for to learn more.
I do not live in the USA. What I am told by my colleagues who do, is that the post bell regional breakup created monopolies by location in order to prevent national dominance but give each region a reliable income in a time of voice call logistics. Fast forward to the emergence of fiber as a viable technology: either you live in a location serviced by a telco who is willing to re-engineer to fiber or you don't. Verizon exemplifies the quandary, it's a huge cost, they have to carve out special data models for cable companies to stop them refusing to drop coax, it's impossible to charge sanely, their shares tank. I am sure there are happy customers but there is no clear equality of service. It's a patchwork minefield.
I am curious on the hardware build out used for the storage nodes. Some of the major issues I have seen with all the appliances out there for storage are the following:
1. Network throughput on the appliance is fast but for an Enterprise level the 10gigE cards used become a bottleneck for transactions because of how the software hypervisor scales the data.
2. Power consumption of the appliances in a rack mount environment are too high and leave needed space that has to stay empty because of the facility power per rack limitations.
3. The software hypervisor scales the stack vertically and relies on the software to load balance horizontally. The performance in a high transactional environment becomes dependent on the software to scale instead of the natural horizontal distribution that can be setup on the hardware out of the box. Standard multi-purpose storage arrays scale horizontal with very little over head from traditional software storage management. I only found one company whose software does not force the stack to be vertical but they fail to meet a reasonable performance in network/power.
Streaming petabytes of data to keep a dynamic constant (static overall storage requirement that changes it's data life cycle via retention rules) becomes very hard with premade hardware.
Does anyone have any recommendations or has attempted a similar exodus from S3 that they can share?
It would be great if they could keep their website up. I feel SecureCRT is worth the money, always have. However, another alternative http://smartty.sysprogs.com/
The Surface Book has had facial recognition for almost two years now and it is actually impressive. Short of a full latex mask that has padding to shape the wearer's face it is pretty impossible to break into it. We did tests with iPad pictures and depth options, straight camera prints and a 3d printed model. None of it worked. It is also not easy to access latex custom latex masks.
I feel my only issue with FaceID is that when you are in handcuffs all it takes is for the phone to be held in front of you. It will be interesting what safety regulations are used to prevent illegal entry by police or captors.
