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Thank you! I hadn't been thinking about that, but it makes sense. I certainly think that the set of people who don't trust clouds is probably bigger than it s

Thank you! I hadn't been thinking about that, but it makes sense. I certainly think that the set of people who don't trust clouds is probably bigger than it should be, but there are some cases where the "natural bug bounty" (available money to steal) is over 100x higher than the earnings of a software engineer and it's easy to cash out. I think it may be reasonable to be paranoid about your cloud provider's (and their employees') access to your systems if that is the case.

jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago
Yeah, even if you don't think cloud providers are doing scummy stuff as policy, there's always the risk of rogue employees. One of the startups I worked for had that happen with a remote office. They decided to wind down the office, gave generous severance and plenty of warning, but one of the devs felt they had nothing to lose so they snuck a trojan onto the servers that would siphon away some of the ad revenue. It wasn't very sophisticated so we found it the first morning the metrics took a dive.