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This is similar to asking why more waiters/waitresses don't use credit card skimmers. I suspect the answer is similarly that, unsurprisingly, most hosting prov
by wikwocket 13y ago
This is similar to asking why more waiters/waitresses don't use credit card skimmers.
I suspect the answer is similarly that, unsurprisingly, most hosting providers are in the business of providing hosting, as opposed to running a front for criminal activities. And that anyone caught running this criminal activity would likely be fired and prosecuted.
And of course that there is an inverse correlation between the type of person interested in petty theft, and the type of person with the skills required to do this and not get caught.
- vpsserver 13y agoBut it makes sense to retrieve wallets from instances that are going to be permanently deleted (when client stopped paying, etc). For example it would save 17000 BTC that bitomat.pl exchange lost when upgrading Amazon EC2 instance to add RAM.
- singlow 13y agoNot if you assume that the client should have already backed up data on that instance, and keeping a copy for yourself is illegal.