Lium's Bare Metal and Security Concerns
AlpinDale · x · 2026-07-14
The author raised two main concerns regarding Lium: first, it does not yet support bare metal VMs; second, because it operates as a decentralized compute network, node providers could theoretically access your active sessions. They acknowledge that the second issue isn't unique to Lium, as such trust boundaries are inherent to decentralized networks. Consequently, they strongly advise against storing sensitive data on these nodes.
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