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"While we allow Internet traffic from software doing compuations on our platform, it is all proxied seamlessly through a small set of computers operated by Grid
by larrys 14y ago
"While we allow Internet traffic from software doing compuations on our platform, it is all proxied seamlessly through a small set of computers operated by Gridspot."
Seems that that small set of computers and IP addresses could be used to do the ill deeds of a bad actor.
"Run anything"
"Get SSH root access to each Linux instance."
So exactly what is to prevent someone from spamming here and how would gridspot even know that was happening? To mention only one possibility.
- justinsb 14y agoBased on my understanding, there's a tightly-locked down outbound firewall: you only get HTTP,HTTPS and SSH ports. So sending mail over SMTP (spamming) can't happen. If someone is doing something evil over e.g. HTTP, presumably GridSpot can also block that and/or ban them from the system. If you're sending spam over e.g. Gmail via HTTPS, Gmail will shut you down. The people running the nodes don't need to worry about e.g. someone downloading illegal content and getting them in trouble, because it is proxied through GridSpot. I think it's a clever solution.
- FiloSottile 14y agoIt is obviously a VM, so the virtual network interface that you get will be proxified. The fun thing will be to see if someone can do some VM escaping and own 100k machines for free.