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Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

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Post by EugeneOZ » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

taligent wrote: post #9

I'm still amazed how quick people are to forget what happened with Linode. Massive security issue (i.e. Bitcoin incident) where hackers got root access to any Linode VPS at the click of a button. Loyal customers were the last to hear about it (through their website no less) and absolutely no proper explanation was or has been given as to what happened, what was done about it and whether it will happen again. You look…

I'm a Linode customer. More than year (14 months) without any problem, super support, good documentation and friendly community - it's MUCH more important than one hack incident.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

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Post by rsl98 » Mon, Jun 18, 2012, 12:51 PM UTC

gmurphy wrote: post #21

taligent wrote: post #9

I'm still amazed how quick people are to forget what happened with Linode. Massive security issue (i.e. Bitcoin incident) where hackers got root access to any Linode VPS at the click of a button. Loyal customers were the last to hear about it (through their website no less) and absolutely no proper explanation was or has been given as to what happened, what was done about it and whether it will happen again. You look…

> Loyal customers were the last to hear about it I'm a Linode customer, your message is the first time I've heard anything about it.

Ditto, I've been using Linode for over a year and haven't heard of this.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

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Post by seany » Mon, Jun 18, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

tsuyoshi wrote: post #26

taligent wrote: post #9

I'm still amazed how quick people are to forget what happened with Linode. Massive security issue (i.e. Bitcoin incident) where hackers got root access to any Linode VPS at the click of a button. Loyal customers were the last to hear about it (through their website no less) and absolutely no proper explanation was or has been given as to what happened, what was done about it and whether it will happen again. You look…

If anyone else is like me and wondering what he's talking about, here's a description from one of the victims: http://bitcoinmedia.com/compromised-linode-coins-stolen-from...

I forgot just how opaque linodes acknowledgement of the issue was. Basicly just a head nod saying "yes, there was an issue." with no follow up or anything. Makes me really appreciate the heroku outage post. Makes me kind of sad to realize just what we'll put up with when things are out of sight. An issue analogous to this at a normal colo would be a HUGE deal.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

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Post by seany » Mon, Jun 18, 2012, 10:53 PM UTC

seany wrote: post #33

tsuyoshi wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anyone else is like me and wondering what he's talking about, here's a description from one of the victims: http://bitcoinmedia.com/compromised-linode-coins-stolen-from...

I forgot just how opaque linodes acknowledgement of the issue was. Basicly just a head nod saying "yes, there was an issue." with no follow up or anything. Makes me really appreciate the heroku outage post. Makes me kind of sad to realize just what we'll put up with when things are out of sight. An issue analogous to this at a normal colo would be a HUGE deal.

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