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Any service priced $free or not tied to a credit card tends to see people play at incredibly dumb levels of abuse. Within a month of Gmail going public I rememb

Any service priced $free or not tied to a credit card tends to see people play at incredibly dumb levels of abuse. Within a month of Gmail going public I remember people already trying to string accounts together as a makeshift multi-GB FTP store. Disclosure: I work in Google Cloud, not on this

jedberg 8y ago
Yup. As someone who ran a free service for many years, it’s amazing how creative the abusers can be.
derivagral 8y ago
For what it is worth, I had a fun college project for a class doing exactly this ("distributed filesystem".) Back before github and dropbox took off, anyway.
- tonto 8y ago
  Seems like many college os(?) classes tested making FUSE FS systems