an ominous comment

[rysiek]

Dnia niedziela, 19 lipca 2015 10:15:38 Florian Weimer pisze:
> * Georgi Guninski:
> > You should be aware of the numerous virtualization
> > sploits -- Xen, Qemu, possibly others.
> > 
> > Exploiting a virtualization bug is just the fee
> > "to be in cloud" and I _suspect_ more efforts
> > are needed for my boxen.
> 
> Not all service providers hand you the capability to run arbitrary
> code to run VM exploits, so you have to exploit an application bug
> first.  (And the application may even run on bare metal.)
> 
> Service providers can also provision VMs in such a way that customers
> can only attack themselves.

I consider service providers' access to my data a problem in and of itself.

-- 
Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak

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