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
- 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?
- When Cyber Capability Becomes Something You Have to Be Granted Anthropic withheld access to Mythos, its advanced cyber AI model, from the EU while sharing it with US institutions. The story is not about nationality — it is about structural dependency, and what sovereignty has to mean now that frontier cyber AI sits closer to strategic infrastructure than to productivity tooling.