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U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/9850201

Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a 'Know Your Customer' regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of "foreign malicious actors." Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won't be able to avoid the proposal's requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That'll only ever pass of the big cloud vendors allow it. No way that Azure/AWS/Google wouldn't object if a sizable portion of their user base get upset and threaten to leave. How much of that user base argues is unknown though.

[–] possiblylinux127 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The money makers for large clouds are companies. They won't care about this legislation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Generally yes, it would matter a lot how it was structured. Today you couldn't call up AWS and ask for the details on a service owner out of privacy reasons and there are ways to register things by proxy. If they started stripping those kind of protections away though there's bound to be some pushback.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Let's see. Email - Iceland Web host - Iceland VPN - Sweden Backup - Norway

Did I miss anything?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Lag?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They are pricier and they know it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every time I read news like this I‘m glad I moved to my own cloud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How did you do it, what are you using and how do you have it configured? Also interested in the costs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Check out my setup if you want.

Costs depend on a lot of factors. If you are technically adept you might be able to get away with 20 bucks a month for the whole setup but most folks wouldn’t imo. I also have some old hardware I was able to use and upgraded it. Initial invest for a homeserver varies greatly depending on who you know.

If you want to know more please ask. You can also hit me up on matrix. Link in bio.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Swell, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I did a similar setup for my own cloud on several Raspberry Pis (one master and two backup devices). The backups are placed offsite and sync the entire content of the master device. The next step I want to try now is running a Proxmox cluster (on x86) that now only syncs contents but also provides identical copies in a high availability setup (like a "real" cloud would).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thats actually not a bad idea. Long term selfhosted cloud solutions will have to compete on availability/redundancy. You might want to help the NC folks to implement that on their docker setup or something?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Hot on the heels of piracy spiking when streaming media libraries were being pared down. This reads like a shot against seedboxes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Liberty = 0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's actually rather stunning to see just how hard they're attacking privacy in these final months of the disastrous dumpster fire that is the Biden administration. This is exactly why I believe centralized cloud and CDN infrastructure is massively dangerous.

Make the web decentralized again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard the alternative candidates talk about how they'll fight for our privacy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't mention the others. It's simply that this current "administration" has been a disaster in literally every way so it's not surprising they're trying to end our constitutional rights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Could be worse.

We could have trump