After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
A sketchy DM. Innocent one-word replies. Then two child safety strikes that stay on my record until 2027. One more strike and I'm permanently banned. I found out why: there's an exploit where anyone can edit their messages and get you banned. Discord has known about this for 2+ years and hasn't fixed it.
When the backend developer said "screw it, let's just give the frontend direct database access through GraphQL," the Atlas Monkey fleet faced its worst performance disaster yet. Ships crashed from N+1 query storms, security breaches exposed critical data, and what seemed like developer convenience became a maintenance nightmare. Captain Seuros investigates why GraphQL often creates more problems than it solves.
A seemingly harmless message is broadcast across the galaxy, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in every ship's logging system. The Atlas Monkey must race to create a patch before the entire fleet is compromised by this Log4Shell-style attack.