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chatmasta 3 months ago

Then why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?

achierius 3 months ago | parent [-]

Security reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.

lostlogin 3 months ago | parent [-]

I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?

chupasaurus 3 months ago | parent [-]

The knowledge of blast radii.

jazzyjackson 3 months ago | parent [-]

Gives whole new meaning to “reverse engineering”

chupasaurus 3 months ago | parent [-]

Well, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.