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Cloud Provider DigitalOcean Exposes Users' VM Data (wired.com)
9 points by signifiers on April 3, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Rackspace/Slicehost & VPS.NET were identified for the same issue April 2012 [1]. Cloud providers MUST securely erase customer media upon release, so that this attack cannot happen.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890905


I hope that part of their follow-up to this includes information about not being able to fully trust that non-encrypted data on SSD drives can be 100% wiped. Users of hosting services should not be storing extremely sensitive unencrypted information on any shared hardware.



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