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Re:Hundreds of exposed Amazon cloud backups found leaking se... by d2mw on Saturday August 10, 2019 @05:30AM (#20661076)
What I mean is https://i.ibb.co/P6N35qv/Screenshot-from-2019-08-10-10-27-25... does not make it clear whatsoever that 'public' really means public. Before we get into blaming the customer, there should be a bright red warning label in that dialog. Consider that English may not be the first language of many users reaching that screen

I think they have it for some stuff elsewhere, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to make public snapshots a per-account permission that defaults to disabled, and requires an interactive UI checkbox to enable. Out of the millions of AWS accounts, public snapshots are legitimately useful to maybe 1000 tops

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