Network Opacity

Hal Canary

2011-05-05 12:00:00-05:00 (CDT)

https://halcanary.org/vv/2011/05/05/csg01/

Just becasue Samba and AFS allow you to open multi-gigabyte data files as if they were local, you still should not. Even if you have a nice 100 Mbit/sec direct connection. Unless the software in question knows to expect these sort of shenanigans.