On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 10:52 -0500, bruce wrote:
So, if I create an instance, spin it up, fire off my tests on the instance, run everything for a few hours, and then shut it off, would that be "reasonably safe/secure"?
I am always amazed that people think shutting off a security something-or-other for some-amount-of-time can be considered safe.
It takes virtually the blink of an eye to get compromised.
If you need to turn off a security feature to do something, then there's something wrong with that /thing/ that required it. It could simply be crap programming, or it could be malicious. And even crap programming can be destructive outside of its own files.