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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by abraae on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:46PM (#13072831)
Really? What are these evil ways?
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by shawabawa3 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:54PM (#13072911)
There were lots of stories of hackers spinning up the largest ec2 instances available to mine bitcoins on anyone's account they could get access to
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Re:Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS by jajern on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:50PM (#13072869)
Not OP, but I've heard of people getting hijacked and finding a bunch of VPSs spun up sending out spam and other malware related stuff. Maybe that's what they mean.
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