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.
- Chat Control: paragrafen er vedtatt, bryteren står av Norge vedtok 20. desember 2024 en forskriftsparagraf om skanning av private meldinger. Den har aldri trådt i kraft, og trer i kraft når departementet bestemmer. Spørsmålet er ikke om Norge skal innføre dette, men når noen slår på bryteren — og hvem som svarer når systemet tar feil.
- Reading the Email Was Enough A Russian state-supported group used a flaw in Zimbra to steal mail, credentials and two-factor authentication data. There was no malicious link to click and no attachment to open.