On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Stephen D. Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Everything will be run in the cloud and browser because it is, overall, a > > better computation model. > > Certainly that's the current bias, but web browser as platform isn't > really all that it's cracked up to be, IMHO - all browsers suck, and I > don't see them getting better any time soon, especially if they run > javascript and plugins. > > > However, that doesn't preclude you from running a > > cloud locally. > > Certainly better than public/commercial clouds - at least until proven > encryption becomes the norm. > > > Although pretty much proprietary to Google & Amazon until > > recently, Docker et al and related VM/container management APIs that are > > mappable to all kinds of implementations will allow apps, administration, > > networking, etc. to be fluid between commercial and various types of > private > > clouds. > > > > In a lot of ways, this is an elegant solution and could arguably be much > > more secure than desktop apps in Windows. Assuming your container system > > isn't running in Windows, which is becoming an option; one that I won't > > trust easily. > > Eh - good sysadmins with good managers/policies can secure Windows > just fine, though I do like jails under FreeBSD... > > Kurt > There's data, metadata and computation. Homomorphic encryption is one part of the solution which fits in with least priv / least authority software engineering. Running your own infrastructure provides a false sense of security, anyway, benefits over cloud are likely an illusion. -Travis -- Twitter <https://twitter.com/tbiehn> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn> | GitHub <http://github.com/tbiehn> | TravisBiehn.com <http://www.travisbiehn.com> | Google Plus <https://plus.google.com/+TravisBiehn>
