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Dear OP, you are asking the wrong question -- a person with 1 mil or even 100k has access to different investment vehicles than a person with 10k or 100 bucks to invest. TL;DR: sav…

This is a horrible situation for your business. I hope you get everything worked out soon. I won't explain the details, but I have extensive experience with bureaucracies and base …

Sounds like this is going to be $99 by the time it is de-bugged (on manufacturing side) and certified. I am angry and frustrated because I want one ;-)

Thanks for this! I was finally fed up with goCIAoglNSAe.cFBIom

As a voting American let me say this is a disgrace. human rights are inalienable -- and we are close to the line in the USA. We can do better.

We are talking about live servers. Monitoring should detect server going down, raising suspicion of a physical attack. The evil maid attack would be useful against the system admin…

Use BIOS & boot loader passwords. Encrypt the file systems. This will not stop 3 letter agencies, foreign governments, or aliens.

Set low level passwords and use filesystem encryption. eg: passwords on all networking devices, boot loaders, and BIOS. Three letter agencies and foreign governments could attack y…

> but at what point is it safe to assume that if you get hacked, it's not going to be because your ISP got hacked If you co-locate your hardware at a data center and your staff com…

I advise you seek the services of a professional sys admin to secure systems.

Inside job is usually the answer for targeted attacks against inside systems. Inside collusion at a minimum. I wonder how anyone can trust their linode systems after an admin accou…

By using your public key. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152 You can also require a password AND a cert.

I am pretty sure this is OP's first experience with ISP contracts. I guarantee it is not Linode's first legal dispute over their TOS with a noob.

You obviously have never worked for a retail ISP.

Written on a scrap of paper in your wallet. only the password and no other info should be on the scrap. If you can memorize it, it is a bad password.

Please people (not corporations w/ staffs), do not run critical systems in the cloud. Get a dedicated server (not cheapest you can find) and secure it with: (install in this order)…

predictions about the future are always uncertain

They underestimate what it takes to audit 10,000 orders for fraud (breaking their business rules, not laws).

I'm sure they will be on ebay -- for $300