All the cloud services I’ve used had virtual network firewalls for internal traffic. Security Groups for AWS, Cloud Firewall for GCP, etc. That’s typically how lateral traffic gets managed. Defense in depth is good, but as I said I haven’t used host firewalls in forever, and we get audited for security certificates every year, and no auditor has asked about them that I recall.
These firewall tools are interesting, but I honestly haven’t needed them in years. The premise is a little out of date. Who puts cloud servers on the open internet these days? Everything I see uses a public load balancer and a WAF service.
I like people in theory
I think it kinda doesn’t matter. If they can catch 95% of all users, that’s pretty close to total victory. Well more than enough to shut out access from Linux systems for most things without causing public backlash.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google account for roughly 95% of all human user systems.
Finally got my last PC switched off Windows. It feels good.
Fucking cool, and also remember to leave your phone at home, or at least on airplane mode.
Recognizing that the physical can affect the mental, and vice versa, isn’t really the end of the dualism argument. Dualists have incorporated that simple observation from the beginning.
From your quote, the key word is “purely.” Is consciousness purely physical, or is some other substance involved, that’s the question.
You can take either side of the argument, but physical-mental interactions only suggest that mental phenomena are not purely separate. It does not indicate that there are no non-physical elements of consciousness. In other words, that mental states are purely physical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind–body_dualism
If you want to read through some of the arguments for and against.
I keep trying to eat meat but it just won’t cooperate!
The payments can become a legal liability for the processors. I believe there are federal laws that have penalties for anyone who facilitates transactions for certain prohibited goods or services. It’s the same reason cannabis shops have such a hard time getting payment and banking services.
The payment processors have very little incentive to take risks here. As others have noted, there isn’t much competition pressure.
EDIT: I went to find a source, and found the cannabis analogy isn’t right. Seems that Visa and MasterCard really are the primary censors of the porn industry. This archived FT article went in depth. https://archive.ph/zXKuD
Maybe that’s the context. All of my cloud hosting work is very large corporate systems in the big three clouds. You’re talking about Hostinger or Scalahosting type services, yes?