🔗 The Homebound Symphony: Predictable (emphasis added):

Every university function that is on the internet is a security vulnerability. (Just look at how many online systems we have!) But every university function outsourced to a giant company whose tools are used by many universities is a far greater vulnerability, because there is so much money to be made from exploiting all that data. Locally owned and managed data is a smaller and less appealing target for hackers.

It’s kind of ironic that the move away from home-spun and locally managed data stores, usually done in the name of “security”, has not left us more secure at all. All it’s done is made larger, more valuable, targets.