Let's see what we hear from our witnesses. Even though some are not running on decentralized physical servers they own, how can attackers take over them ? They would still need lot of hive stake to control, right ?
Let's see what we hear from our witnesses. Even though some are not running on decentralized physical servers they own, how can attackers take over them ? They would still need lot of hive stake to control, right ?
To take over as a witness, yes stake is required.
If the tech companies started to take hive nodes down because they are on their servers, like AWS did with Parlor, that is what the topic of the article is about.
i think the idea is to be able to host in few different countries. different laws, different interests... If Parlor was hosted somewhere outside the US it would most probably not happen to them.
Ahh, that explains. But I hope, we still have good amount of nodes running on their own servers, let's see.
^ this is more what I take from it as well.
A proper witness server only has SSH exposed, even that can be blocked by a firewall. The likelihood of a witness being attacked is slim to none if done properly, but most witnesses are just running Hive in a Box and really don't know much more than following the 8 steps to get it up and running or securing their server(s).
I think the real threat being presented here, is a data center or service provider telling you the take a hike. This happened with SSD Nodes, they ninja changed their service policy and said no one can use crypto projects on their server and cancelled anyone running a witness or anything crypto related without refund or notice. I had 8 servers there at the time they shut a few of them down without warning or refund and referenced a Terms of Service change that was made without notice and said it was my responsibility to read their terms of service daily.
Yes, the data center threat is political not technical.
While its obviously important to have some witnesses with a high level of technical skill able to help with hard forks, having lots of HIAB witnesses running their own equipment mitigates the political threat of Big Tech censorship.
Hive shouldn't be doing any hard forks at a time that it is under political attack. As the system matures hard forks should be much rarer than they have been in the past.