Same way that dropbox can be compromised: your account gets hacked or the provider gets hacked.
Nope. My account on my vps is protected with a strong ssh key and password-logins disabled. Also fail2ban is set up to forever disallow ips that try failed logins. So not the same at all.
lots blindly typing in "npm install ..." or even "curl ... | sh" going on.
> Same way that dropbox can be compromised: your account gets hacked or the provider gets hacked.
Nope. My account on my vps is protected with a strong ssh key and password-logins disabled. Also fail2ban is set up to forever disallow ips that try failed logins. So not the same at all.
By "account", I don't mean the account in /etc/passwd on your VPS, I mean the account with your hosting provider. That can be hacked/phished just like a dropbox account, not to mention the provider themselves getting hacked or social engineered.
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Nope. My account on my vps is protected with a strong ssh key and password-logins disabled. Also fail2ban is set up to forever disallow ips that try failed logins. So not the same at all.
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By "account", I don't mean the account in /etc/passwd on your VPS, I mean the account with your hosting provider. That can be hacked/phished just like a dropbox account, not to mention the provider themselves getting hacked or social engineered.
The vps can be encrypted by a customer supplied key. In google compute, for example: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/customer-supplie...