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

[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

[tml@mementomori.social]

@0xabad1dea Also, how do we know that it was a ballistic missile and not a drone?

Yes, I am fun at parties.

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@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@c.im]

@mkj @0xabad1dea ah yes. Of course

[rairii@labyrinth.zone]

@0xabad1dea ok now i'm imagining the opening strike of a war being on us-east-1

[karl@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea there's a word for that in every language, and English chose "cowardice".

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@0xabad1dea
Well, objects (large and explosive) DID strike the Amazon data center.
What's yer point?
(Here I'm being sarcastic.)

[heartofcoyote@neuromatch.social]

@m @0xabad1dea badum *kish*!

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

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

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@0xabad1dea ah yes, just a drone. cuddly, friendly weapons of war, they wouldn't i dunno, cause a fire like they did

[rey@toot.cat]

@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

[crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt]

@0xabad1dea somebody accidentally deployed a J2EE application

[starkraving666@jorts.horse]

@0xabad1dea no politics at Amazon!

[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@0xabad1dea "We recommend customers enact their disaster recovery plans and recover from remote backups"

So.. not just a localised power issue then?

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea

That's certainly a different issues from "a duck in a secure data center" ‍️

[arne_d_h@snabelen.no]

@0xabad1dea Any events of other kinds, like "rapid unscheduled disassembly", "kilo-Kelvin event", "accelerated oxidization event", "negative health alteration", "unhealthy substance ingestion", "head/body estrangement", "local high speed lead overdose", "descent into terrain" or anything else not necessarily in an advantageous direction?

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@fuzzyfuzzyfungus @DaveFlater @0xabad1dea Back in 2001 right after 9/11 there was immediate relief among insurance companies when Bush appeared on TV declaring "This is an act of war". Later on, there were clarifications and they had to backtrack, but for a while, that was all they needed to refuse any claim.