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Comment by bigiain

> you just rebuild the affected VMs from scratch

These people have administrative access, and at least in some cases network and physical access.

Once you determine they are untrustworthy and potentially malicious, you can't just rebuild the VMs, since you can no longer trust the hypervisor or even the hardware.

If they were Chinese or Mossad agents, you'd start from scratch in a different DC on supply chain audited new compute, storage, and networking hardware. And you'd compile everything from audited source. And I have NFI how you'd deal with potential malicious changes to your data and backups.

parent bigiain 1 year ago

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