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Re:How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and ... by RussianCow on Monday August 31, 2015 @06:13PM (#10149414)
Amazon would save some money by doing this, since they usually reimburse "victims" of public AWS keys (at least on the first instance) and eat the cost.
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Re:How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and ... by spdionis on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:41AM (#10152213)
They don't "reimburse" anything. They only cancel the due amount. The only thing they lose is their wasted computing power (and some support costs) and I think the RAW computing power is very cheap to them, especially considering their scale. The cost in terms of support for the victims is probably bigger but still not significant.
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Re:How a bug in VS2015 exposed my source code on GitHub and ... by RussianCow on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:55PM (#10153846)
It's still a cost that could be mitigated with a couple hours of someone's time.
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