retrovm

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1. 31.▲
   by retrovm 7y ago

   Pretty much nobody at Google has that kind of access. You can be an SRE of just about anything at Google and never access user data. The "break-glass" means of emergency access is ridiculously booby-trapped. A person wanting to
2. 32.▲
   by retrovm 7y ago

   That's exactly my point. In a company like Twitter there is some person or probably many people who are "the dba" and accessing a mysql directly or even using tools to access the underlying storage is an event of no discerni
3. 33.▲
   by retrovm 7y ago

   It seems like there is an inverse relationship between sophistication and risk. If everything is full-custom then it may be quite easy to integrate auditing tools for who accessed user data. If an org uses mostly off-the-shelf software then
4. 34.▲
   by retrovm 7y ago

   If your threat model is "all the threats all the time" then I assume you also wear a helmet when walking down the street.
5. 35.▲
   by retrovm 7y ago

   Is MS Virtual PC really this slow? On VMWare Workstation I can install Windows 3.11 in about 7 seconds, not the 6 minutes this author is showing.