tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244229696356617473.post6064926156604490293..comments2023-06-16T08:03:41.486-04:00Comments on Nonsensical Multisyllabic Words: Google Government Cloud. Is this Good news or Bad?Tangalorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12497659918815055740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244229696356617473.post-39558606720539348192009-09-18T11:35:01.306-04:002009-09-18T11:35:01.306-04:00A chortle is in order for that reply. :PA chortle is in order for that reply. :PTangalorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12497659918815055740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244229696356617473.post-64862657405155509132009-09-18T11:27:28.147-04:002009-09-18T11:27:28.147-04:00Slouching towards Bethlehem, I suppose.Slouching towards Bethlehem, I suppose.MeatAxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03477536538497998805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244229696356617473.post-39055864749688480512009-09-18T11:22:22.258-04:002009-09-18T11:22:22.258-04:00Thanks for the comment.
You're right about it...Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />You're right about it not being as secure as we'd like it to be... <br /><br />Like I said, is this good or bad, though? From which perspective should we be applying our attention (all of them, perhaps?)<br /><br />Which direction will this Rough Beast take?Tangalorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12497659918815055740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7244229696356617473.post-15249221514290741642009-09-18T11:17:48.631-04:002009-09-18T11:17:48.631-04:00Well, I have two thoughts on this one. Well, three...Well, I have two thoughts on this one. Well, three. <br /><br />1) Thanks for posting this. I had no idea it was happening and its quite interesting, indeed. <br /><br />2) If anyone can do this, Google can. They have the experience with infrastructure and their products scale beautifully. Any interview with the Google Execs has the word "scale" used about twice in every sentence and they really mean it.<br /><br />3) If you design for openness, interoperability, and scale, you are less secure. And that's fine for google right now, cause nobody really wants to read my google docs or my gmail account, so a low level of security is fine. <br /><br />Its a trade off. You want a totally secure computer system? Lock in in a bank vault with armed guards around it and don't connect it to a network. Ever. <br /><br />So I don't care if Almgighty Zoroaster flies down on a magic unicorn that farts pixie dust and designs the damn system himself. If its a distributed computing, cloud-architecture, buzzword buzzword system, for 300 million people, its not as secure as we'd like it to be, especially given that its going to contain all sorts of sensitive data on all of us.MeatAxehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03477536538497998805noreply@blogger.com