@Mer__edith That's why YOU DON'T DO THAT to begin with!
Cuz lets be fundamentally clear on this one: There's no "legitimate reason" to mandate #PII like #PhoneNumbers and have #centralized infrastructure so riddled with #SPOF|s that it can't handle a single datacenter outage.
Seriously, if @signalapp was coded by some freelancer on #Fiverr for like $100 I'd be okay with that. But how many $ did the development and infrastructure cost you (per year)?
To me this is #malpractice!
Signal waarschuwing die meevalt, maar wel te denken geeft
In de Signal app verscheen bij een account de waarschuwing “Je veiligheidsnummer met [naam] is veranderd”. Volgens de supportpagina kan er dan van alles mis zijn, dus oplett
https://www.niamat.nl/blog/signal-waarschuwing-die-meevalt-maar-wel-te-denken-geeft/
#Algemeen #security #spof
so... turns out that Signal has a SPOF on AWS us-east-1
... *until* and unless they can prove (or at least convince us) they have made approp changes and therefore no longer do
plan accordiningly, folks!
e2ee comms matters little if its backend pipes are down. all that fancy encryption becomes irrelevant if DoS'ed, at scale, and without warning
Vint Cerf would not be happy!
Vint Cerf and Al Gore, in all their wisdom, designed The Internet to be able to withstand a nuclear attack on large parts of it, on key hubs, and yet survive and continue to work fine.
By 2025 AWS has become a de facto SPOF (single point of failure) for a *significant* percentage of the world's compute infrastructure.
And The Bad Guys out there know it.
So let's change it, mmmmkay?
Anybody want to send me cash to make code contribs (part-time, remote) to CoreDNS?
Focused on perf, scale, availability, reliability, failover, latency, throughput, etc
cuz SPOFs are bad (esp at Internet-scale), mmmmmkay
#DNS
#CoreDNS
#PaidFOSS
#AWS
#AWSOutage
#outages
#availability
#SPOF
lots of youngsters got a lesson today in the unwisdom of allowing SPOFs in your mission critical biz (or even life!) stuff
If it's not #decentralized, #federated and #FLOSS it's not worthed. Like #Matrix or #XMPP, communications should not depend on a #SPOF in some #BigTech silo.
Signal is supposedly the most secure e2ee comms app in the world.
And it just went down.
Because of the AWS us-east-1 outage.
Tons of folks had come to rely on Signal as their "go to" team comms tool, both in private & professional life.
Achilles heel?
Complexity kills, kids.
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) was live but we had other bussiness to attend to:
* Use a client with mirrors support now!
* #OSUOSL is back
* #Fennec issue explainer
* More metrics niceness
* 10 years of #Disroot
+ 12 new apps
& 135 updates
- 3 apps archived
~ 1 app downgraded
Will you be my #SPOF? https://f-droid.org/2025/08/28/twif.html
#Oups : acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org est dans les choux, donc le renouvellement du certificat de cherche.shaftinc.fr qui s'est lancé cette nuit plante
cf : https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/687e8d62b8a4e804fad85799
Single Point of Failure là gì? Cách phòng tránh SPOF trong crypto
Single Point of Failure (SPOF) là điểm dễ tổn thương trong hệ thống mà khi xảy ra lỗi sẽ khiến toàn bộ hệ thống sụp đổ. Cùng blogtrading khám phá cách nhận diện và giảm thiểu SPOF nào. Chi tiết tại:
https://blogtrading.net/single-point-of-failure-la-gi/
Hastag: #Coin568 #Coin568net #sangiaodich #sangiaodichtiendientu #dangkysangiaodich #SPOF
Economies & societies (nationstates) are #systems. As such, they naturally avoid single points of control, because they're also single points of failure [SPOC/ #SPOF]. That means it only takes 1 error for the whole system to crash, 1 well placed attack or blackmail, etc. #EvidenceBasedGovernance
The, how many disasters from homelessness index.
As that becomes a review of how clustered are any assets it rapidly becomes clear that though the magnitude of disaster can be different the number that could clear anybody out is much smaller than they think.
First up is this lecture by Mike Menzel who led the "System Engineering" efforts of the James Webb Telescope. #jwst
Infosec and CS in general loves to focus on failures, but I think we should focus more on successes. And the JWST is a extremely impressive success.
In this lecture he gives a overview of how they made it a success, even with so many things that could go wrong.
I mean the JWST had 344 "single points of failure"!? And yet it worked, perfectly, above expectation even.
Just go watch it, but do it when you have time to digest it, it's long.
It's currently at 845 views and 20 👍, which is criminally low for content this great. Let's try make it trend shall we?
