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sure "thepiratebay" as we can define it is linked to wherever the DNS entry points to? That is the single point of failure, even in a move to the cloud.
by daurnimator 14y ago
sure "thepiratebay" as we can define it is linked to wherever the DNS entry points to?
That is the single point of failure, even in a move to the cloud.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI think the point is that they can recover extremely quickly after any take downs. Much more quickly than it takes to organise the take down in the first place. Making it pretty much pointless to do.
- mseebach 14y agoThere are many failure modes for a site like TPB. This move removes many, not all, of them. One important failure mode that has been removed is the one where the servers are seized and information on them is used to go after users.
- pyre 14y agoLessened, but not removed. Cloud-providers could be forced to take memory snapshots of the servers as they are running rather than just shutting them down, which negates the "shuts down to password-protected FDE" and "only operates with everything in memory" aspects. It would be much more difficult to capture memory on a stand-alone machine, but a VM makes it easy. If authorities are able to figure out the topology of the network, they could coordinate this.