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Offline Nemesis

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Cloud Burst
« on: February 23, 2013, 12:20:33 pm »
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Microsoft secure Azure Storage goes down WORLDWIDE

Looks like Redmond forgot to renew a security certificate...


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Update: 3pm

It appears that Azure is in the grip of a global cascading fail.

The storage problems have severely impacted other key components of the Azure cloud, including some of the services Microsoft has previously used to differentiate itself from arch-rival Amazon Web services.

The Windows Azure Service Bus, which helps pass information between different parts of the megacloud; Azure Web Sites, which offers easy-peasy hosting; Access Control 2.0; and the windowsazure.com website itself have all been hit by “service degradation.”


Showing (one reason) why I am anti-cloud.   :thumbsdown:
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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2013, 12:24:39 pm »
Microsofts new cloud slogan "So secure even YOU can't access your data!"
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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2013, 03:56:57 pm »
Google also demonstrates the same flaw with the system.

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Google Drive, the search giant’s cloud-based storage service for documents and other files, experienced a “service disruption” this morning according to the company’s status page.

Google Inc. issued an update shortly after 11 a.m., indicating a problem “affecting a significant subset of users” who were unable to access Google Drive.

By noon, however, Google said it had identified the problem and service would be restored to most users within the hour.


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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2013, 05:20:12 pm »
The next shock will come,when people  realize that somone in some government was able to view their data and profile them,.. prosecute them,for what ever BS reason, although it was never meant to work that way,...or was it?
Uh the naivity,.... ;)
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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2013, 05:42:10 pm »
Which of course is another (more important) reason why I am anti cloud.
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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2013, 09:25:44 pm »
And how much information that is on Google cloud is being searched by Google for the purpose of pushing advertisements??!?  Does anyone really have any expectation of privacy with cloud servers?
 
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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2013, 10:38:48 pm »
I have no expectation that any information on a cloud server is actually secure.  Just the concept behind the cloud makes me suspect it's security.

We use a cloud based system at work, all the machines connect to a virtual machine in the back, and when that machine goes on the fritz, which is does about once a month, we are completely out of business.  There supposedly is a backup, but to engage that backup requires a complete shutdown of the entire network, and an activation of that back up, before the other machines are brought online.  Given the way our company has "secured" our computers (we can't even do simple maintenance like a scandisk or a defragmentation of the hard drives with out the proper access credentials), its actually a wonder we're still operating.  Many times its actually easier to give the primary computer a good, swift, kick and hope that it starts working correctly again, than to activate the backup.
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Re: Cloud Burst
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2013, 07:29:56 am »
One more reason not to trust the "Cloud"... or Email for that matter.   ::)

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But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a “top priority” this year.


http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_weissmann_fbi_wants_real_time_gmail_dropbox_spying_power.html
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