There are three 'knobs' to the cloud today: compute, storage and networking. A new emergent 'knob' for the cloud is trust. Trust affects three primary features

There are three 'knobs' to the cloud today: compute, storage and networking. A new emergent 'knob' for the cloud is trust. Trust affects three primary features of the cloud: how it's paid for (credit vs. capital expenditure), how it works (standards vs. custom solutions) and who I am (identity management vs. anonymous use). I won't go into it much here, but cryptocurrencies play a part in this knob, big time. In Huthos case, they 'hack' the credit part by simply taking a machine with poor identity management in place (honeypot) and then provide a high level of anonymization for their customers (the 'who I am' above) and providing it as a standard way for extending a VPS offering (which itself provides 'who I am' services). It's all about trust, and what's the most irritating part about it is that the violate it first before they get to selling it to others. Crazy.