• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    “By design” AWS bills project owners for unauthorized calls to the public S3 API.

    So what I’m reading from this is you can do a billing attack on anything hosted in AWS so long as you know one of their bucket names.

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      Seriously, now that this is more widely known, it’ll for sure be taken advantage of a lot, to the point AWS will begrudgingly protect their customers once the damage is done.

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    You shouldn’t be charged for unauthorized requests to your buckets. Currently if you know any person’s bucket name, which is easily discoverable if you know what you’re doing, that means you can maliciously rack up their bill just to hurt them financially by spamming it with anonymous requests.

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    As it turns out, one of the popular open-source tools had a default configuration to store their backups in S3. And, as a placeholder for a bucket name, they used… the same name that I used for my bucket.

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      It’s fine if you dislike a site. But the correct thing to do is not consume their content, not to work around it.

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        Or use a browser extension to implement your preferences rather than push them onto others in a way that makes it harder for them to implement theirs.

        If an article links to medium.com my redirects kick in, my link flagging kicks in and everything else. If everyone uses some different service to “fix” medium I am stuck with what they like. There is valuable to keeping the canonical URL.

        I would also love to see domain blocks as a user preference in Lemmy. Just hide these sites that I don’t like.

      • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Medium is the journalistic version of the gig economy apps, mixed with a bit of digital landlording. The correct thing to do here is to bypass any of Mediums paywalls you might run in to.