June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
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@DaveFlater @0xabad1dea insurance generally excludes acts of war from coverage.
Fallout from a ballistic missile seems quite an act of war and I doubt "hey there was no war declaration" is enough to get a payment from them.@mbpaz @0xabad1dea that's my point. They're going to say we don't know anything about a missile, something just fell on us, now please pay our claim.
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@mbpaz @0xabad1dea that's my point. They're going to say we don't know anything about a missile, something just fell on us, now please pay our claim.
@DaveFlater @0xabad1dea Being naive is not among the many many problems of insurance companies.
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@0xabad1dea "… creating sparks and fire."
@jernej__s @0xabad1dea
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June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange linkedin recruiter speak
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@DaveFlater @0xabad1dea insurance generally excludes acts of war from coverage.
Fallout from a ballistic missile seems quite an act of war and I doubt "hey there was no war declaration" is enough to get a payment from them.@mbpaz @DaveFlater @0xabad1dea I'd be genuinely curious to know how that will work. Ballistic missiles are definitely nation-state coded in ways that truck bombs are not; but my understanding is that insurance contracts usually distinguish between 'war' other violent damage by legal status rather than delivery method.
I also think I've been told that the "Malayan Emergency" was so classified in order to try to avoid war-related insurance conditions, so it has been tried before.
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June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I see a zone-name like "mec1" and I assumed it was in mecca. Looks like it was in UAE, though?
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@m@martinh.net @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I see a zone-name like "mec1" and I assumed it was in mecca. Looks like it was in UAE, though?
@ferricoxide I think it's "Middle East – Central"
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@0xabad1dea Fun, but do we actually know that the missile hit the data centre? A missile might have hit a neighbouring building, and the explosion then caused some large bits of concrete or whatever to hit the data centre.
@tml@mementomori.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Datacenters aren't usually built right next to other buildings (except other datacenters). I would more assume that it was literal debris from a fully- or partially-successful intercept. UAE does have Patriot missile batteries and the debris from an intercept has to go somewhere (and I'd assume that an actual/direct missile- or drone-strike would come with a different, more-significant status). -
June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
@0xabad1dea maybe should have corrected that bucket policy
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@0xabad1dea Fun, but do we actually know that the missile hit the data centre? A missile might have hit a neighbouring building, and the explosion then caused some large bits of concrete or whatever to hit the data centre.
@0xabad1dea Also, how do we know that it was a ballistic missile and not a drone?
Yes, I am fun at parties.
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@ferricoxide I think it's "Middle East – Central"
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Which is weird, because UAE would seem more like "Middle East East" or at least "mec-2" (since I'd assume the first AZ in "central" would be someplace more central to the region like, say, Riyadh). -
@capnthommo I'm pretty sure that would be a finitely time-limited exothermic reaction event.
@mkj @0xabad1dea ah yes. Of course
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June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
@0xabad1dea ok now i'm imagining the opening strike of a war being on us-east-1 -
June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
@0xabad1dea there's a word for that in every language, and English chose "cowardice".
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June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
@0xabad1dea
Well, objects (large and explosive) DID strike the Amazon data center.
What's yer point?
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@m @0xabad1dea badum *kish*!
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June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”
March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”
if you want to @ me about how akshually it was probably a DRONE not a MISSILE, then no matter how good a grade you got in ballistic impact analysis, you're getting an F in The Point
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if you want to @ me about how akshually it was probably a DRONE not a MISSILE, then no matter how good a grade you got in ballistic impact analysis, you're getting an F in The Point
@0xabad1dea ah yes, just a drone. cuddly, friendly weapons of war, they wouldn't i dunno, cause a fire like they did
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@HeNeArXn @0xabad1dea FWIW we’re currently at “full recovery is still expected to be many hours away”
@slothrop @HeNeArXn @0xabad1dea latest update:
"We are expecting recovery to take at least a day, as it requires repair of facilities, cooling and power systems, coordination with local authorities, and careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators."
yeah that's gonna take a bit
