Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:50AM
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The transfer of various liabilities is omitted from the above tweets, which is clearly worth something to some people.
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by whatever1 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:29AM
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What liabilities? Cloud operators are breached on a monthly basis and there are no repercussions.
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by Daishiman on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:56PM
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What makes you think F500 companies don't get breached all the time?
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by abirch on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:25PM
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Exactly. I know if a large bank that went to the cloud after one of its infrastructure employees walked away with data on a USB stick.
Re:FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:57AM
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Could be as simple as the decision maker being able to point finger at the vendor. Could be PR related, where media does not report your company’s equipment was compromised. Could be reduced exposure to getting locked out of your own system and having to pay a ransom.
> Clown Computing is an elegant, distributed, breach of trust.
> Take customers, as many as you like, convince them to hand you all their data, the management of said data, the authentication and, while you are at it, the DNS. Oh, and they pay for it too!
> If this was done in real life it would be called a robbery, possibly at gunpoint, definitely in broad daylight. It used to be the case that Oracle licensing was deemed the pinnacle of IT robbery ('90s) but it looks positively quaint now.