June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”

[via4@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea This is a characteristic trait of authoritarian systems, which corporations inherently are. In Russian propagandists media they used to call explosion a "clap." No kidding, "a gas clap in residential building" has become a meme

[finn@ice.finnley.dev]

@0xabad1dea irl dos attack

[shved@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea Sooo.. you had a calendar synchronization anomaly due to internal firmware instability? xD

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@capnthommo I'm pretty sure that would be a finitely time-limited exothermic reaction event.

@0xabad1dea

[daveflater@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea tryin to get the insurance to pay.

[tml@mementomori.social]

@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.

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@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@mas.to]

@th3rdsergeevich @0xabad1dea "leaking some droplets and plasticine-like threads" (speaking about a fucking fully loaded tanker sunk, leaking heavy oil into the Atlantic)

https://youtu.be/vZsGMs4JE2k?t=18

[m@martinh.net]

@0xabad1dea When you think about it, a flooded data centre is really just a...

cloud migration

[weirdone@wehavecookies.social]

@0xabad1dea "Welcome to Politically Correct 'ᴙ' Us."

[daveflater@infosec.exchange]

@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.

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@DaveFlater @0xabad1dea Being naive is not among the many many problems of insurance companies.

[claude_flammang@dju.social]

@jernej__s @0xabad1dea
Sounds more like an angry GOD to me.

[thermia@sk.girlthi.ng]

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange linkedin recruiter speak

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@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.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@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@blahaj.zone]

@m@martinh.net @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

Needed a grumpy-cat "NO" emoji.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@ferricoxide I think it's "Middle East – Central"

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@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).

[xssfox@cloudisland.nz]

@0xabad1dea maybe should have corrected that bucket policy