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Then why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?

• achierius 2y ago
  Security reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.
  • lostlogin 2y ago
    I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?
    • chupasaurus 2y ago
      The knowledge of blast radii.
      • jazzyjackson 2y ago
        Gives whole new meaning to “reverse engineering”
        • chupasaurus 2y ago
          Well, the alternative name for it is "backwards engineering" for a reason.