Knut Michael Haugland
Founder building European cloud infrastructure with a focus on control, transparency and open systems.
About
I build cloud infrastructure in Europe, with a focus on control, transparency and long-term reliability.
I am the founder of WAYSCloud, where we design and operate infrastructure that remains within European jurisdictions and under customer control — without dependency on external platforms.
I care deeply about how infrastructure is built, who controls it, and what assumptions it is based on. For me, this is not just technical — it is about trust, responsibility and long-term sovereignty.
My work sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, operational security and digital sovereignty. I focus on how systems behave under real-world conditions, not just how they are designed on paper.
I believe Europe needs infrastructure that is transparent, predictable and independent — not only for compliance, but for resilience and long-term trust.
I write about the decisions, trade-offs and structures behind building and operating infrastructure at scale — based on practical experience, not theory.
I write primarily in English, with a focus on European infrastructure, sovereignty and systems.
Latest writing
- Denmark warned about CPR guessing. 14 years later, 8.8M exposed Denmark warned about CPR-number guessing in 2012. Fourteen years later, automated lookups exposed data linked to 8.8 million living, dead and emigrated people.
- Nazi Songs, “I Am Gay” Emails and Nobody in Charge at BGP.Exchange BGP.Exchange’s website remains defaced. Member-linked contact data were used in authenticated campaigns, the domain was transferred between registrars, and its current DNS delegates email signing to a Microsoft 365 tenant whose original domain prefix is “furriesfun”. The service’s visible PeeringDB footprint includes about 510 participant networks, but the number of confirmed victims remains unknown.
- Residential Proxies and the Internet's Ownership Problem Attackers no longer need to build suspicious infrastructure. Residential proxy networks let them borrow the reputation of an ordinary household — and Europe has started regulating the product without deciding who owns the outcome.