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by josh2600 4108 days ago
Just make a snapshot on terminal.com and then the state of your web application can be distributed at an instant in time. You can verify its exactly what you say it is since the snapshot is bound to your user name.

You can make a snapshot for free right now if you want to. This should solve your problem.

Let me know if you have any questions, but using terminal's snapshot feature you can distribute your web app at a known state.

Edit: it's like git versioning for machine state.

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While it seems cool, this doesn't solve anything. At best it just shifts trust onto Terminal. And really, there's nothing stopping a malicious VM owner to "fix" up things to a good looking state, then show off that snapshot, then revert and continue.

A solid example to keep in mind is MtGox. How can we run something and know no invalid trades are added, no fake password resets processed, etc etc.