They Came Ex Officio. The Gate Stayed Closed.
Today’s news: the government is starting ex officio investigations of hacked companies next month. Ex officio means the authorities act on their own power, without waiting for the victim to file a report; if a breach is detected, they come and flip it whether you reported it or not. The first question of any such investigation is where the data lives, and for a company running on public cloud that is the landlord’s data center, logs included. In the comic, the ex officio investigator runs into the cloud landlord first, and then comes to a stop at our gate on the wall.
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▶ Animated edition: the characters speak for themselves (Korean audio, English subtitles included)
What this means for ThakiCloud
What the ex officio rule reveals is that ‘where does the data live’ has become the starting point of the investigation itself. ThakiCloud’s answer is sovereign on-prem: models, data and infrastructure all run inside the customer’s own facility, so the data never crosses the gate. That means whatever the investigators arrive with, the first thing they can check is what sits on the customer’s side, not what hides in a landlord’s data center. Paxis posts perimeter and gate security agents the way the comic shows, and Metis keeps learning and inference on the customer’s GPUs. We are not trying to block the investigation. The data simply does not pass through the gate.
An auto-generated comic riffing on this week’s industry news.