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I feel like companies collecting sensitive information and slapping it on someone else's computer without the slightest clue how to protect it, or running a clo
by anonym29 3y ago
I feel like companies collecting sensitive information and slapping it on someone else's computer without the slightest clue how to protect it, or running a cloud hyperscaler and leaving storage open and indexed by default is far more unethical than anything I'm doing. I'm not the unethical collector, I'm not the one who decided to host that collected info on the cloud, and I'm not the CSP who gave those unethical collectors shitty security defaults. I'm just the messenger notifying others that this is happening.
US case law is abundantly clear that web scraping is 100% legal. Further, I have never signed any agreement with AWS (I don't even have an AWS account) regarding AUP or anything like that, so I have no contractual restrictions on this either.