TKO - Built for disaster

Thou shalt not... import rosewood from Madagascar! Gibson guitars, Nashville, TN, has been raided by the police under the claims that they import this hefty wood. I'm a Fender guy myself, but poor those Gibson fans...

I guess it was just a matter of time before someone clever would come up with ways to take control over TLS/SSL connections, and here it is. ZDNet and DarkReading have stories around the flaw, and here is the work presentation with examples . Now we just have to wait for the massive patching nights. Update: 2010-01-12 IETF has approved the draft , and coders have an official GO to implement patches for deployment in a larger scale.

As you can imagine from the headline I'm not a big fan of cloud computing. I have too many questions not answered and thus very doubtful. But hey, who am I to judge when guys like David Campbell at Electric Alchemy posts convincing proof of cloud usability on his blog. This post has apparently been both El Regged and Slashdotted but I think it is worth mentioning and it will be a pointer/reminder for me next time someone tries to convince me of cloud greatness. Crack away at Amazon!