Star Wars Security

Besides turning datacenters on and off, making them more efficient, and helping users take advantage of them, the other thing that's been occupying my time is coming up with a way to figure out who's making that call in the DC and if they are really allowed to do it. Otherwise known as Identity and Access Management, or IAM.

I could go into a lot of boring detail about cryptographically secure messages, the basics of TLS, x.509 certificates, OAUTH2, RSA, elliptical curves or some other buzzword, but not today. Today is Star Wars Day, so in honor of that, here's what happens to all 3 versions of your super-weapon when you don't take security seriously, Star Wars style.

If you trust me, drop this in your terminal:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

If you don't, there's http://www.asciimation.co.nz/