The White House’s proposed executive order is meant to address an increasingly serious and visible cybersecurity problem in which Chinese and Russian hackers rent U.S. cloud infrastructure space to carry out cyberattacks or scan for vulnerabilities, allowing them to hide in plain sight by acquiring a domestic IP address.
21 sats \ 1 reply \ @bellabaxter 27 Apr
Why renting cloud computing when it's so easy to boot up a botnet?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wingalt 27 Apr
The power grab doesn't have to make sense (i.e., it never does), all it needs is to be believable enough for the non-informed to comply
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 27 Apr
Ally?
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58 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 27 Apr
No, it just eats into their profits (which come from exploiting customers).
A temporary ally at best, but our interests and theirs do not align.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 27 Apr
👏👏
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