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0 pointsthrowaway20371y ago0 comments

    > they were going as far as requesting customer's ID and rejecting them on the basis of country of origin

Wouldn't this be required for most cloud providers? Else, how do filter out buyers from Iran, Syria, or North Korea, who are probably banned from buying your EU-based services?

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sertraline1y ago

I've used OVH, Scaleway, Linode and Amazon in the past, right now I use a small provider that resells Serverius and Hetzner, none of them ever asked me for my ID and all of them allow usage of VPN to sign up for service. As to payment, at least Amazon used to allow usage of debit cards in the past. Hetzner was the only provider that asked me for an ID. I'm not from the banned countries either.

throwaway2037OP1y ago

Wow, that is crazy to think about. It must be so easy for Iran and NK to rent a billion hours of GPU time to simulate nukes using stolen bitcoin. Hoi. Truly dystopian!

daneel_w1y ago

Neither Scaleway, Oracle nor AWS ever asked me to scan an ID document to prove my identity. I presume my debit card details were sufficient.

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