sa.muel.org — Amazon provides beta Elastic Cloud Computing service where you can get a new server allocated in minutes, but does not wipe out the hard drives every time the server is requested. The result? Private data gets leaked.
Oct 3, 2006 View in Crawl 4
oxyrubberOct 3, 2006
How is this "leaking" data?This is a complete oversight on the customers' end. This is almost as stupid as throwing away a hard drive full of data (into a dumpster) and assuming that the data will never again see the light of day.Any high-tech security employee should know to secure all data (no matter where it is stored).
afexOct 3, 2006
no kidding. all i can think about when people trust things like this is that one poster with the minivan that says "CANDY" and at the bottom it says 'don't be such a pussy, this guy seems legit."
pvtjohndoeOct 3, 2006
Let's not forget that Amazon's EC2 service is still only in beta. This issue will probably be resolved very soon.
soapboyOct 3, 2006
yeah, why do anything, it's already been done before......
jack9Oct 3, 2006
they definately need to do something about this. we don't want to see another AOLIf you're stupid enough to leave critical or sensitive information on a foreign beta system, you aren't qualified to use it. It's like saying "wow that system administrator left data on a harddrive, where people could GET TO IT we need to prevent that kind of thing!" I wish these morons would shut up.
felderadoOct 3, 2006
perhaps you need to read the f**king comments. the filesystem is FRESH but the hard drive still contains the DATA. you can recover the files with strings and dd, for example. It's not like there are actual files poking you in the face. dumbass....
samtcOct 4, 2006
Hello,They just (20:00 PDT) fixed the problem. Now you get random bits on freshly booted instances.
anonydiggOct 5, 2006
can u give reference please? (link to forum or other)
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