2.5 Admins 2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy
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Oct 9, 2025 A major security breach at Red Hat reveals sensitive customer data, raising concerns about centralizing such information. Synology reverses its decision on third-party drive restrictions while also removing features like HEVC transcoding, impacting user trust. The discussion shifts to the Salter philosophy, emphasizing the importance of open and portable solutions to avoid vendor lock-in. Finally, experts offer free consulting on managing ZFS properties during replication, sharing strategies to enhance data portability and system mobility.
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Danger Of Centralized Customer Repos
- Centralizing thousands of confidential customer repos creates a single catastrophic failure point.
- Jim Salter warns that one compromise can expose many customers simultaneously when data is pooled.
Silo Customer Data To Limit Damage
- Do silo customer data per client (containers/VMs/per-customer instances) to limit breach blast radius.
- Allan Jude argues per-customer isolation would likely have contained the Red Hat breach to far fewer repos.
Archive Old Case Files From Live Systems
- Archive old case files off the live instance to reduce exposure.
- Allan Jude suggests tiering and archiving to keep long-lived records from increasing live-instance risk.
