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
- Your Connected Devices May Already Be Part of the Next Cyberattack On 30 June 2026, WAYSCloud stopped a coordinated registration campaign against meil — no accounts compromised, no email accessed. The method mattered more than the impact: identity, verification and network geography split across three countries, routing malicious traffic through the connected devices in ordinary homes.
- Apple's Hide My Email Bug Was Likely a Boundary Failure, Not an Alias Apple's Hide My Email issue is not just a story about email aliases. Privacy aliases are boundary architecture — and the hidden mapping behind an alias must never become observable.
- Stopping Abuse Without Turning Users Into Surveillance Objects This morning we contained a coordinated registration-abuse attempt against meil.no — caught early, no accounts compromised. The harder question it surfaced: how do you stop modern, distributed fraud without turning every legitimate user into a surveillance object?