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It’s quite amazing what poor practices arise in shared environments. About 20 years ago I was working with a large company that had dedicated servers in a huge
by macintux 5y ago
It’s quite amazing what poor practices arise in shared environments.
About 20 years ago I was working with a large company that had dedicated servers in a huge east coast data center. The servers were firewalled, but they also were attached to a secondary network for scheduled backups.
I decided I should explore that further, and sure enough I was able to connect via SSH to other customers’ servers.
I alerted the hosting company, but they didn’t seem to take it very seriously.
- onionisafruit 5y agoWe should never believe a hosting or cloud provider when they say we have a segregated instance. They may even believe it themselves, but there is always some service connecting them all.
- h2odragon 5y agoVisited a BIG datacenter; top grade security and visitor's passes and all the trimmings. Buddy giving me the tour shows me a couple of the things they show to VIPs, its early Sunday morning and they still caught me trying to take a couple pictures, very high grade and attentive folks. Then we go back to his office, and load up the 1,000lb of computer gear he's donating and I'm transporting. We wheel 3 cartloads of stuff down the back elevator, through the secured DC floor we saw through glass earlier that i couldn't take a picture of, and out an open back door right near where i parked my truck. no further interaction with security, no badge waving, no questions asked.
- macintux 5y agoReminds me of Michael Keaton’s line in The Paper: > A clipboard and a confident wave will get you into any building in the world!