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While it is true cash offers in the strict sense mean real cash, it may also mean no-contingency offers. You can go through mortgage underwriting first and commit to pay the gap between appraised value and deal value, and can make a no-contingency offer with minimum risk. Or, if you are willing to lose your deposit (usually 3-5%) you can also make a no-contingency offer to be more attractive.

I've had luck showing that the cloud provider fulfills the 'local backup' requirement as part of their compliance (provided they do meet the same framework that you're trying to meet), and us inheriting the control from the cloud provider.

It appears sort has a --stable flag for order preservation. I actually thought sort was stable by default already, but now I know.

I'd say it's lower in the stack, and probably for a different audience. If you really wanted to, you can probably implement BeyondCorp using (but not only using) this or one of its competitors mentioned in this thread; but it's only part of the equation and leaves out the authorization logic of BeyondCorp.

As an example, consider an army attacking a defending army. The defending side is as good as the weakest member, because you can presume the attacking side to be looking for the weakest part and attacking that. On the other hand, the attacking side is as good as the strongest member, and having a few weaker members is ok. It is generally harder to make sure you have uniformly good defense, than getting a few really good people to spend dedicated time attacking.

Of course, this model assumes that as soon as you have penetrated the perimeter, the rest becomes easy. This is the more traditional model. People are increasingly adopting a you-are-already-hacked approach, which makes it harder to move laterally once someone gets in. However, the general challenge still applies.

FYI if they enter the final amount incorrectly you can dispute the charge with your credit card provider. It's probably a stronger case if you kept your own copy with the final amount that you wrote down.