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Amazon's EC2 Having Problems With Spam and Malware
jamie pointed out a story about the recent problems Amazon's EC2 service has been having with malware and spam. "EC2 space is now actively blocked by Outblaze, and has been listed by Spamhaus in their PBL list [...] However as Seth Breidbart noted in the comments, 'note that Amazon will terminate the instance. That means that the spammer just creates another instance, which gets a new IP address, and continues spamming.' True enough -- as described, instance termination simply isn't good enough."
While I'm against the death penalty, I might be willing to consider it for spammers.
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No problem. EC2 is unhackable!
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No, it's apparently something in the Amazon. I guess Brazilian deforestation is a major contributor to the global increase in salted canned pig meat.
Here is a wild idea... WILD.. Off the hook insanity....
Just block ALL of EC2 from being able to send out anything on port 25 and 587.
Problem solved. Last time I checked EC2 has a lot more interesting uses than running mail server software.
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