Does security pay the bills? No. Now, do a threat model on how much a security BREACH will damage your company. Now do a threat model on how much the LAWSUITS from a security breach will damage your company.
Now, is the company in ANY sort of healthy state after that?
And what about the NEXT security breach? And the next?
Not that I don't believe you. But if you were doing it, and doing it SUPPOSEDLY "right" on AWS, why is it that you speak about it in the past tense? Hmm?
If you're concerned AT ALL about "security" or "latency"? Then no, The Cloud (AKA "OTHER PEOPLE'S SERVERS") is not for you. So yes, in those instances, The Cloud *IS* your enemy.
You simply cannot guarantee the security of any hardware NOT under direct control. And if they're VMs, it's doubly bad.
As for latency, as noted, Cloud offerings generally concentrate on "CPU" and "Storage". Now, if someone's somehow, begun offering an ultra-low latency service, I haven't heard about it. Though I SINCERELY doubt the service is lower latency than "A room next door to your office".
Cloud computing is nice if you simply don't give a shit about your data.
This is EXACTLY the type of technology we should be looking SERIOUSLY at, a opposed to running around like a headless Chicken Little, screaming "HOTTEST *INSERT EVENT* EVARRRRRR!"
What you're describing is basic GPS and lane following.
That's NOT the same as a fully autonomous system. Because the vehicle has no way to track other vehicles on the road with it to the necessary fine resolution required.
Civilian GPS is accurate down to about 3 meters right now. A 3 meter variance between your GPS position and your ACTUAL is basically enough to put you into an entirely different lane (see POTENTIAL COLLISION HAZARD) or completely off the road (see CRASH).
The problem is, that you're simply being proactive about using reactive systems and methodologies.
That's like saying "this location is safe because we have hugely thick and high boundary walls, and the building itself is a combination of concrete and steel that's even thicker. The roof is 20 feet thick as is the foundation. It's bombproof and drill-proof. We've got biometric security and armed guards roaming the premises. And all our employees are heavily indoctrinated in security methods.
Meanwhile, the owner is walking a friendly-seeming attacker past everything...or you're being fished by the person you're talking to.
An elevator travels inside a brick/concrete vertical tunnel. Not on a public road with dozens/hundreds/thousands of other cars. An elevator's controls actually DISENGAGE the brakes to travel between floors. If the controls fail, the car locks itself in the shaft. A plane flies in a pre-determined path that's cleared of other traffic in a fully 3D medium of which the plane occupies an infinitesimally small percentage of.
A motorway has a person in charge of a car. People generally don't suffer software failures that often.
These people haven't built even a fully working, usable prototype yet. And I'm sick of them shilling their snake oil. "Hyperloop here! Hyperloop there! Hyperloop, Hyperloop EVERYWHERE!"
They may as well be shilling a 100MPG carburetor that magically converts plain water into a combustible fuel source.
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How much money could have gone into development? Or paying their staff better? Or rolled off into the budget of another game?
Fires and employee uprisings and the members of the board running around going "NAZI!" and punching random people...
We've had decades of "PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE DOWN!" commercials and warnings and everything else.
Yet, every year, we have a bunch of people bucking for a Darwin Award (eligible or not).
If it weren't for the fact that they're hurting other people in their quest, I'd say "let them off themselves".
You can't fix stupid. But you can die trying.
Oh. You're one of those people who holds to the vision that real security costs multiple zillion dollars?
How quaint...
Does security pay the bills? No.
Now, do a threat model on how much a security BREACH will damage your company.
Now do a threat model on how much the LAWSUITS from a security breach will damage your company.
Now, is the company in ANY sort of healthy state after that?
And what about the NEXT security breach? And the next?
What happens when your wonderful token eventually desyncs (they ALWAYS desync, don't let anyone tell you it never happens).
Something else Google can drop into place and then abandon...
If you're a small company that can't afford security experts you have no business putting secure data out on the internet PERIOD.
Not that I don't believe you. But if you were doing it, and doing it SUPPOSEDLY "right" on AWS, why is it that you speak about it in the past tense? Hmm?
If you're concerned AT ALL about "security" or "latency"? Then no, The Cloud (AKA "OTHER PEOPLE'S SERVERS") is not for you. So yes, in those instances, The Cloud *IS* your enemy.
You simply cannot guarantee the security of any hardware NOT under direct control. And if they're VMs, it's doubly bad.
As for latency, as noted, Cloud offerings generally concentrate on "CPU" and "Storage".
Now, if someone's somehow, begun offering an ultra-low latency service, I haven't heard about it. Though I SINCERELY doubt the service is lower latency than "A room next door to your office".
Cloud computing is nice if you simply don't give a shit about your data.
If you do, then you need to look elsewhere.
Yeah. Like THAT was gonna happen.
Nah. Their perma-beta software doesn't get "fixed". It just has shit tacked on, "temporarily" forever.
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The maximum sustainable population of humans on planet Earth is 500 million. We have 15 times that many and they're only growing.
Whose ass did you pull that number from?
This is EXACTLY the type of technology we should be looking SERIOUSLY at, a opposed to running around like a headless Chicken Little, screaming "HOTTEST *INSERT EVENT* EVARRRRRR!"
No. They're still getting power from other sources as well.
They're simply paying an hefty offset to subsidize renewable sources.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
No...
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Yeah no.
What you're describing is basic GPS and lane following.
That's NOT the same as a fully autonomous system. Because the vehicle has no way to track other vehicles on the road with it to the necessary fine resolution required.
Civilian GPS is accurate down to about 3 meters right now. A 3 meter variance between your GPS position and your ACTUAL is basically enough to put you into an entirely different lane (see POTENTIAL COLLISION HAZARD) or completely off the road (see CRASH).
Howsabout "HELL FUCKING NO!!!"?
If this hits browsers, the first thing I'm doing is disabling it.
The problem is, that you're simply being proactive about using reactive systems and methodologies.
That's like saying "this location is safe because we have hugely thick and high boundary walls, and the building itself is a combination of concrete and steel that's even thicker. The roof is 20 feet thick as is the foundation. It's bombproof and drill-proof. We've got biometric security and armed guards roaming the premises. And all our employees are heavily indoctrinated in security methods.
Meanwhile, the owner is walking a friendly-seeming attacker past everything...or you're being fished by the person you're talking to.
An elevator travels inside a brick/concrete vertical tunnel. Not on a public road with dozens/hundreds/thousands of other cars.
An elevator's controls actually DISENGAGE the brakes to travel between floors. If the controls fail, the car locks itself in the shaft.
A plane flies in a pre-determined path that's cleared of other traffic in a fully 3D medium of which the plane occupies an infinitesimally small percentage of.
A motorway has a person in charge of a car. People generally don't suffer software failures that often.
These people haven't built even a fully working, usable prototype yet.
And I'm sick of them shilling their snake oil.
"Hyperloop here! Hyperloop there! Hyperloop, Hyperloop EVERYWHERE!"
They may as well be shilling a 100MPG carburetor that magically converts plain water into a combustible fuel source.
Sorry, No thanks!
Driver-assist? Lane keeping? Collision warning? Auto-park? Cool.
But I ultimately refuse to put my physical safety into the hands of a machine built AND programmed by humans.
Even if the country mandates it, employers will still use it.
Because, at this point, EVERYONE does.
The Borg are in orbit.
SIR! Our global defense grid just BSOD'ed!
Shit! Someone send the Borg a Linux ISO from a distro that uses systemd!