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Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by lbotos »

tempnow987 wrote: post #20

I had a sour taste from what I remember being misleading communication around very serious control plane hacks of linode. A lot of bitcoin theft in 2012 (maybe by their own staff?) 2013 some kind of cold fusion / HTP hack Another CF / HTP hack here. 2014 brought the MySQL server no password stuff. 2015 ish some kind of total root compromise? You can get a feel for all this here including the denials / lack of notific…

Look, we are random internet people, and it's a "me vs. you" scenario, but as someone who worked at Linode in 2012, we were a small company, that all worked out of one office, with like 3 admins at the time. Yes, there were various hacks. Yes, there were silly vulns, but positing that one of the employees at that time stole bitcoin is something that I won't stand for.

Could it have happened, sure. Do I think that it was an inside job? No, not at all. 99% of the people there at that time thought Bitcoin was insanely dumb, and I suspect most of us still do.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by mattl »

hughrr wrote: post #88
INTPenis wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate to say it but I recently moved away from Linode after their /64 block in Frankfurt was banned by all Google services. And even though all their kubernetes nodes have a public ipv4 address they were somehow unable to fallback on this when their ipv6 didn't work. And when I suggested this to their support they acted like I was crazy and said there is no way to switch between ipv4 and ipv6. Well I don't work in n…

We blocked the entire of Linode AS63949 ranges because we were getting attacked from random owned nodes and it was tripping our IDS constantly. Just got fed up with it in the end and decided to hose them. To note, we have had problems with AWS blocking random addresses as well where we've had staff abroad.

Same, but DO as well.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ubermonkey »

awww, fuck.

I used Slicehost for years, but they got swallowed by Rackspace and became unusable. Linode has been my home since then. I have no positive experiences with small providers who get swallowed by corporate borgs. :(

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by telesilla »

aetherspawn wrote: post #58

I was really close to becoming a Linode customer last week for several large boxes, but ended up buying hardware and self-hosting. The cost to cut in an enterprise fiber link (1000/400) to our office was surprisingly low. My experience trialling linode as a paying customer was really positive (VERY competitive price, great performance), only complaint being their NodeBalancer can’t automatically handle certificates l…

We've moved to AWS since, but we started our early cloud infra on Linode and was always so impressed by their customer support. Genuine good quality. Let's hope it keeps going well.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

#105

Post by rhizome »

folmar wrote: post #90
ethbr0 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the many reasons every country needs more serious, standard, and mandatory public disclosure laws for cloud infrastructure breaches.

Looking from the end user end it seems nice, but will soon be weaponized in all possible mannar, sloppily executed, and too much data to ingest. For reference there is mandatory disclosure of (serious) data breaches in the GPDR and it's very uncommon that the disclosure actually occurs.

Target should have had difficulty surviving as a company as a result of penalties-if-not-prison for their 2013 breach, but we see what happened there.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Aeolun »

apple4ever wrote: post #81
Croftengea wrote: post #50

From Linode blog: For the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have. Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful. This acquisition will propel us both forward — not take anything away. Linode will soon be able to call on the power of Akamai to offer entirely new products, services, expertise, locations, and scale, while Akamai will be able to tap into Linode’s deep expertise…

> Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful All the buyers say that now. In 2 years, it will change.

I too, read this as ‘farewell, and thanks for all the fish’.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by ipaddr »

seanw444 wrote: post #48
prirun wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had a Linode for many years with no problems, and have had to use their excellent phone service once. I tried DO and hated it because they used a zillion 3rd-party services on all their internal web pages (after being signed in) so I was in a constant battle enabling things with NoScript. I have a small Vultr VM I use for testing. Their site didn't require enabling a bunch of 3rd-party domains. They've been rock…

You may have convinced me to move over to Vultr.

That doesn't include a ip4 address and you can't point a domain to it.

I have two grandfathered 2.50 packages with an ip (no domain pointing).. no issues ever but it's a playground not a production box for me.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Klonoar »

Huh, is this a rare win for Philly tech?

(Super open to being corrected here, just always found them interesting to be in Philly since I don't know of many tech co's there)

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by mmaunder »

Congrats Linode. Been a user since they launched. Even the diehards (like me) have moved a lot to AWS and competitors. Lindode's biz feels stuck in the previous decade, and I think the $900MM purchase price reflects that. Hopefully the founders had a great exit and move on to create new amazing things! Best of luck to the Linode team.

Re: Akamai to Acquire Linode

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Post by Spooky23 »

rhizome wrote: post #105
folmar wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking from the end user end it seems nice, but will soon be weaponized in all possible mannar, sloppily executed, and too much data to ingest. For reference there is mandatory disclosure of (serious) data breaches in the GPDR and it's very uncommon that the disclosure actually occurs.

Target should have had difficulty surviving as a company as a result of penalties-if-not-prison for their 2013 breach, but we see what happened there.

That’s a little over the top, eh? They disclosed within 4 days of discovery and implemented better security controls all over. They are probably the only major retailer with chip and pin payments in the US, for example.

If you think they were unique or egregious in terms of 3rd party access to networks, i am afraid that you will find reality disappointing.

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