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AWS announces EC2 instance attestation

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22 points·by patch_cable·hace 10 meses·9 comments

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patch_cable
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I don’t think it is so binary.

If there is more friction to communicate with me I expect to hear from people less often.

As an example, my friends that only use Discord and not SMS or Signal definitely hear from me less frequently. It doesn’t mean we’re not friends, but we do communicate less frequently.
patch_cable
·hace 2 meses·discuss
That’s a bit uncharitable. It made perfect sense to me. I also learned something about Japanese lacquer.
patch_cable
·hace 5 meses·discuss
In the exact same configuration? Yes.
patch_cable
·hace 6 meses·discuss
The date of the notice is October 28th. The separation dates given in the letter are 90 days out from the date of the notice (for some technical reasons, some employees had a separation dates a bit further out.)
patch_cable
·hace 6 meses·discuss
The books are also physically really pleasant to hold and look at.

I’ve read each book they’ve published and enjoyed them all.
patch_cable
·hace 10 meses·discuss
I think they’re saying anyone could order “secure” checks with your account number on them.
patch_cable
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Excited to say I worked on this feature! (Standard disclaimer: thoughts and opinions are my own and may or may not be shared by my employer.)

To give an idea of the kinds of things you can do now:

  - Keys or other secrets can only be decrypted (via KMS) by an EC2 instance if it is running an approved AMI. 
  - You could build a certificate authority (CA) which only issues a certificate to an instance running an approved AMI.
This is similar to the functionality that was available in Nitro Enclaves. However, enclaves came with restrictions (such as only being able to communicate through a vsock) that made them not a great fit for all use cases.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
I’m more familiar with the 737 (as a hobby, not as a pilot), but for that aircraft the “loss of thrust on both engines” checklist has the start levers as the second item on the list.

Note that in the checklist I am looking at the goal is to restart the engines rather than diagnose the failure and that involves these levers. I suspect you’d notice pretty quickly if they were not in the expected location.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
Sorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
Ah I missed that. Fair enough then.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
Ah fair enough.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
It’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
I have an elderly parent who has required multiple trips to the ER in the last year. The issue here (Seattle) is that the beds in the other departments are full, so there is no where else for them to go. The ER usually determine within a few hours she needs to be admitted, and then it takes a day for them to actually find the capacity.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
It isn't quite as formal as that, but there is a group of engineers who review new APIs for following AWS-wide standards.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
I haven’t explored that. My intended use case was outbound calls, so I just bought a phone that allows you to switch the ringer off.

Rather than specific hours, I would probably just create an allowlist of friend and family numbers and trust them not to abuse it.
patch_cable
·el año pasado·discuss
I recently just set this up for my 5 year old.

I bought a Grandstream HandyTone 801 as a bridge. I use voip.ms as a service provider. Both are geared toward more technical users, but the service is very reasonable for the price. Instructions for configuring it are clunky but not too bad: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Grandstream_HandyTone_802_-_HT8....

I had previously tried Ooma, but I didn't like that it wanted to sit between my router and modem.