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We are talking about computer time here. It's cheap to spin up 1000 tiny aws instances.

• a9h74j 5y ago
  Waiting for PoWaaS.
  • EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
    That exists long ago, look at nicehash.com
• DonHopkins 5y ago
  As long as they're somebody else's instances, and you're a criminal who broke into their account. And that still destroys the environment and enriches Jeff Bezos. Forget stealing data — these hackers hijacked Amazon cloud accounts to mine bitcoin: https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-broke-into-amazon-cloud-to-mine-bitcoin-2017-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-broke-into-amazon-cl... >A report from the security intelligence group RedLock found at least two companies which had their AWS cloud services compromised by hackers who wanted nothing more than to use the computer power to mine the cryptocurrency bitcoin. The hackers ultimately got access to Amazon's cloud servers after discovering that their administration consoles weren't password protected.
• mym1990 5y ago
  This is silly, computer time certainly isn't free and almost anything scaled up on a cloud service can become very expensive within minutes. Just go look at the poor developers that make 1 mistake in their Lambda code and get charged $80,000.