Comment on Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto
dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 months agoI’m always a bit paranoid about my google compute account. Opened it many years ago, ran a few instances for a few dollars for a few months, had enough, oh look there’s no easy “delete just my google compute account” button.
Unhooked all the payment methods, shut everything off, turned out the lights, but it seems I can’t leave the building.
hpca01@programming.dev 8 months ago
Funny thing I had a paranoid freakout too before I got hacked on AWS, I had bought a visa gift card and that’s what I put in as a payment card on AWS. Of course they know where I live and could still screw me, but they would have to do it on their own dime.
They make it really hard to leave or just use a specific service only. I use them for DNS, objectively it’s supposed to be cheap AF pay yearly, but now I have to pay $2 a month just to do all the auxiliary stuff to notify me that I got hacked.
I’m buying a server rack soon and just got a full symmetric fiber line put in so I can do my own hosting.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Everything is so intertwined, and that’s the way they like it. Do I trust some random support bot/person in Google to unhook and delete my compute account from my google identity and not accidentally trash the rest of my 15 year identity with Google/Gmail? Hell no. So my compute account still sits there idle.
I guess it bolsters their metrics, that’s nice for them I suppose.