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Interesting, without any information for the user ( no credit card required ), it is really interesting how they prevent usage of this box as a hacking machine.

carlesfe 12y ago
That was my first thought. But then again, all my private servers have been hacked or under intense attacks by bots, so maybe it is my own brain which is now compromised. Anyway, I think this is a super cool and creative service, kudos to the author. Edit: Possible bug, I get nothing on Safari after 1 minute of waiting: http://i.imgur.com/pKoNPrV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pKoNPrV.jpg Edit 2: Ah, on trying again, I get an error that all servers are busy. Maybe we killed it again, HN :)
- drinchev 12y ago
  You are right. I've been hacked a couple of times too. What I see the hacker is usually doing is make my machine a DDoS bot that acts on demand. Anyway with a service like this it would be far easier for anyone to make his hacking attempts more untraceable.
mmahemoff 12y ago
Techniques other sites use: * CAPTCHA * Require single-sign on via Facebook or Google+ * SMS token * IP throttle No, none of these are remotely watertight and no, not every developer is inclined to connect to their VPS via Facebook (or even has a FB account). Just saying, these are ways other sites try to add a bit of friction to what could otherwise be a runaway script spinning up thousands of servers. And without requiring a credit card.
windexh8er 12y ago
Most definitely. Just for fun I logged in, installed nmap, and proceeded to scan my home connection to see if they blocked anything (scanned from 1-65535). If anything this is convenient for getting a public IP quick and they don't restrict any ports. But wait... You can also use SSH as a dynamic SOCKS proxy quick for an ad-hoc VPN. I bounced SSH over to port 443, because why not. Fired up SSH on my local machine with a local dynamic proxy (ssh -D 4444 -p443 ubuntu@212.47.231.xxx), set my proxy on Firefox to localhost:4444 and voila. Free VPN through them for 30 minutes. Not uber fast (server is in France) but usable.

carlesfe 12y ago

That was my first thought. But then again, all my private servers have been hacked or under intense attacks by bots, so maybe it is my own brain which is now compromised. Anyway, I think this is a super cool and creative service, kudos to the author. Edit: Possible bug, I get nothing on Safari after 1 minute of waiting: http://i.imgur.com/pKoNPrV.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pKoNPrV.jpg Edit 2: Ah, on trying again, I get an error that all servers are busy. Maybe we killed it again, HN :)

drinchev 12y ago
You are right. I've been hacked a couple of times too. What I see the hacker is usually doing is make my machine a DDoS bot that acts on demand. Anyway with a service like this it would be far easier for anyone to make his hacking attempts more untraceable.

mmahemoff 12y ago

Techniques other sites use: * CAPTCHA * Require single-sign on via Facebook or Google+ * SMS token * IP throttle No, none of these are remotely watertight and no, not every developer is inclined to connect to their VPS via Facebook (or even has a FB account). Just saying, these are ways other sites try to add a bit of friction to what could otherwise be a runaway script spinning up thousands of servers. And without requiring a credit card.

windexh8er 12y ago

Most definitely. Just for fun I logged in, installed nmap, and proceeded to scan my home connection to see if they blocked anything (scanned from 1-65535). If anything this is convenient for getting a public IP quick and they don't restrict any ports. But wait... You can also use SSH as a dynamic SOCKS proxy quick for an ad-hoc VPN. I bounced SSH over to port 443, because why not. Fired up SSH on my local machine with a local dynamic proxy (ssh -D 4444 -p443 ubuntu@212.47.231.xxx), set my proxy on Firefox to localhost:4444 and voila. Free VPN through them for 30 minutes. Not uber fast (server is in France) but usable.