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Re: amazonaws.com?
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:10:58 -0700
Barry Shein wrote:
> not to excuse this, but... it's not a simple problem. The 'bad guy' > rolls up to the website, orders 200 machines for 20 mins under the > name 'xplosiveman' pays with some paypal/CC and runs his/her job. That > job happens to create a bunch of email outbound. It could be a > legitimate email service outsourcing their compute/bw needs to AWS, it > could be 'pick-yer-bad-spammer' ... AWS really can't tell until after > when the complaints roll in. :( Oh rubbish, it's a trivial problem. You verify the payment method in advance and make it clear in the agreement to use the resources that any of the following activities (list, define...) will be billed at a steep rate (e.g., $100 per spamming complaint) and make some reasonable effort to ensure you can collect that, like do an authorize on their credit card (that's what hotels do to reserve but not charge typically $1000 or whatever on your card when you check in.) It's trivial, using your systems to spam is a cost, make sure at the very least you get paid for it.
And 6 months later, a chargeback shows up because the cardholder claims their card was used fraudulently. The bank will most likely side with the cardholder if you challenge it. How can that loophole be closed?
~Seth
Current thread:
- amazonaws.com? Barry Shein (May 23)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Patrick Clochesy (May 23)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Chris Stone (May 23)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Steve Atkins (May 23)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Colin Alston (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Kee Hinckley (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Christopher Morrow (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Barry Shein (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Seth Mattinen (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Barry Shein (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Colin Alston (May 25)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Barry Shein (May 25)
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- Re: amazonaws.com? Barry Shein (May 26)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Colin Alston (May 26)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 26)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Colin Alston (May 26)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 26)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Colin Alston (May 24)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Patrick Clochesy (May 23)
- Re: amazonaws.com? Dorn Hetzel (May 26)