Cloud storage has become ubiquitous in modern society. The most widely-used example, I think, is the one that comes prebundled with our p...

Cloud storage has become ubiquitous in modern society. The most widely-used example, I think, is the one that comes prebundled with our p…

  • Dark ArcAEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    To be fair, if your server is taken over, there’s a good chance your other devices have been compromised first/as well, in which case you’re already in trouble.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
      11·
      9 months ago

      No way. Servers are easier to compromise because they’re online all the time and by definition exposed to requests from the public internet

      • Dark ArcAEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        You can have a server without a public IP; that’s totally doable. An internal server that’s only accessible from LAN or a VPN is still a server.

        Also, the majority of compromises happen because of user error (e.g., someone opens/runs the wrong thing) or an unpatched machine, not because of an exploit in server software/because the machine is always on. This is especially true in the business world where it’s often a combination of human error and the network not being segmented/ACLs not being set properly/etc (lots of cases of human error).

        It’s also not that unusual for someone to keep their e.g., desktop always on or their laptop/mobile device in a low power state where it still has network activity despite being “off.”