Posts by Aitor 1 1602 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
Be aware that using your own servers doesn't save you from the us presidential ban issue.
You also need to not use proprietary software.
And not only US, but any proprietary SW (as EU companies will likely not sell to you or provide patches).
If you use open source, where are the repositories based? Because they will also ban you if based in the US.
It is vere, very difficult to survive a full blanket ban, chances are, you are going bankrupt.
I agree with you.
If you want security, you must only trust your CA, and nobody else. This, of course, presents it's own problems if you are connecting to somebody else's servers, because by default they do trust at least the root CAs. And the issue is they can't be fully trusted.
You also have the blackbox inside the OS and processor/enclave, that you also can't fully trust.
Do basically you can have reasonable security, but bad actors with access to dodgy certs will be able to do MiTm attack, and depending on your paranoia it will be more or less difficult.
Of course the common attack won't work against you if diligent.
I am happy not to be the one responsible for security at a high stakes company because IMHO it is getting more and more difficult to manage.
As for the point of this article.. I think that if security worries you that much, just use your own servers.
That, of course, also has issues and a price to pay
Cisco is in fact know to have had backdoors in the past. And they could be forced by the US government to have backdoors and they couldn't tell you.
Same for Huawei, mind you.
In essence, if you don't trust the US you can't trust companies based there, same for China, etc.
From a fundamentals point of view, it is insecure.
Good security is something you have, something you know. This digital ID means something you know.
So it creates many problems, as what happens if you get hacked or someone steals your digital ID? You don't have a physical one that does the cryptographic signing, that would be an issue.
And you don't have the benefits of an actual card you can carry with you.
So less benefits, and more problems than an actual physical and digital id.
AI is excellent at translation.
It will be able to move from one language to another, particularly away from mainframes, if we consider COBOL.
Also, there will be few if any benefits, as this is translation, not migration. So no advantage taken from newer frameworks, objects, etc.
The only benefit will be running it on a cheaper but less reliable platform.
It is a great idea, until you know about the field.
The Chinese have better technology, and amazing integration, plus all the processes happen there.
€500 per car battery is not even close to make them in Europe.
They cost less than half in China and are better.
So we would need like 3000e per car battery for parity.
Of course, given to the campaigners that can't compete.
Not a terrible idea, because due to taxes we would recoup the cost, but maybe they should have invested for decades before?
I have used Mint and Ubuntu for desktop quite a lot.
It also has bugs, and I frankly prefer the windows UI..
Most commercial software that I use is made for windows, some have versions for Apple, and only games can be played in Linux.. with caveats and tinkering.
I don't want to tinker, not anymore, I just want it to work.
And windows is making it less convenient as time passes by, it is at this point almost spyware, yet we still use it.
Fpga is not the present in these systems.
Quite a few use xeon platinum processors in specific configurations for SDN equipment.
These processors are very expensive and power hungry, but correctly use can process ungodly amounts of traffic in a flexible way.
A DSP will.process a lot of traffic cheaply... But is set on stone.
A fpga is expensive and way slower, but flexible.
What Ampere is trying to say is they are cheaper than Intel and less power hungry.
It is going to hit hard companies like Cisco. AMD and Intel will be affected, losing sales, but won't be hard hit.
The government is also going out of us controlled processors.
The biggest consumers of processors are data centers, business and tertiary personal devices.
I guess that will come next.
More worrying is the timeframe. Looks like China is considering going to war with the us after 3/4 years, and they obviously can't do that with us made processors and sw everywhere.
I disagree. It is immoral, but quite logical.
You have hostages (clients) and you buy for day 1 billion. Extract 2 billion in 2 years, and move on.
Amazing benefit.
Now move on and extract value from the next company.
This was done in the 80s repeatedly with terrible consequences for the economy, as it is essentially a hostage situation plus setting a company on fire. Value is overall destroyed and resources (money) plundered.
Increasing prices this much and removing training and certification will probably give them the benefits of 20+ years in a couple of years.
Of course it will seriously damage the long term value of vmware, but they are essentially strip mining the value of the asset they bought.
It is immoral, as it breaks the assumed agreement between partners (vmware and clients), but probably legal in most parts of the world.
Overall I find it quite damaging for IT and the world in general, but sadly this was to be expected.
Most of my big customers always had the backup network port and network, plus servers. Everything independent.
But it was expensive.
So they recreated that as virtual appliances.
Still expensive.
So they "went to the cloud" as it seemed less expensive. And threw caution to the wind.
Now it is more expensive than the initial situation and less resilient, but they are trapped.
Constant backup on cloud premises is neither practical nor affordable.
The cost is huge, and makes the cloud difficult to justify.
Almost everyone that uses Amazon has the data in amazon. In another region as backup, yes, but still on amazon/azure/google.
