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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by radus on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:20PM (#25152519)
Shared hosting has been a thing for a lot longer though. Wouldn't that have been exposed to the same set of vulnerabilities though? I suppose there were lower hanging fruit to exploit though.
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Re:Google Publishes Latest Linux Patches So Only Trusted Tas... by rodgerd on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:38PM (#25153476)
In 2005 if your bank rocked up to their regulator explaining that they wanted shared hosting of their financial systems on commodity hosting providers they would have been told to reconsider or lose their banking license.

Now it's carte-blanche to have core financial systems on Amazon, running alongside EC2 instances purchased with stolen credit cards by folks in non-extradition countries.

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