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The cloud providers are going to have to be more scrupulous about who they allow to use their infrastructure if they don't want to tarnish the image of their upstanding customers.
This is total FUD. Please check your statements for accuracy.
> This means DNS queries will not resolve for government employees if they point to Linode hosted machines. This is total FUD. Please check your statements for accuracy.
I think the real issue here is just letting anyone use your servers for whatever they want. It's a big problem in the cloud because even there, you're guilty by association. The cloud providers are going to have to be more scrupulous about who they allow to use their infrastructure if they don't want to tarnish the image of their upstanding customers.
Can anyone check to see if http://matt.might.net/ is blocked? I host it on a linode. Thanks!
> This means DNS queries will not resolve for government employees if they point to Linode hosted machines. This is total FUD. Please check your statements for accuracy.
Heard that the top level domain linode.com was black holed due to its association with malicious activity [...] Reading this sentence, reminded me of Google using Linode when that incident happened with Chinese hackers.
This reminds me of when I worked tech support for a big US ISP. I would get calls from users who couldn't connect to certain .mil sites because they had an IP ending in zero (x.x.x.0). The only solution was to reset their modem and hope the DHCP server would give them a new IP that didn't end in zero.
> This means DNS queries will not resolve for government employees if they point to Linode hosted machines. This is total FUD. Please check your statements for accuracy.
I work for a gov agency and both linode and hosted sites work for me.
I'm guessing the variance is due to different agencies implementing different security stuff. Again, 3x verified & no intent of FUD --- I love linode.
I think the real issue here is just letting anyone use your servers for whatever they want. It's a big problem in the cloud because even there, you're guilty by association. The cloud providers are going to have to be more scrupulous about who they allow to use their infrastructure if they don't want to tarnish the image of their upstanding customers.
I wouldn't use any provider that took an active interest in monitoring my traffic or examining my VPS.