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

[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." 😐

[cthon1c@kolektiva.social]

@0xabad1dea the universal term to cover all eventualities is “jargon-involved event”

[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

[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".