So is it that they just didn't want to take the time to do it, or they were afraid of shortening the life-span of their SSDs by cleaning them after use?
Typical combination of: ease of implementation, desire to minimize overhead of security, and the perceived difficulty and low utility of the attack vector.
There are fundamental tradeoffs that happen when you take the VPS / cloud hosting route, and security is definitely one of them. There are reasons why Amazon, for example, doesn't just casually mix in their own services into AWS instances. Security is still a hard problem.
There are fundamental tradeoffs that happen when you take the VPS / cloud hosting route, and security is definitely one of them. There are reasons why Amazon, for example, doesn't just casually mix in their own services into AWS instances. Security is still a hard problem.