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Re:Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks by mikeliu on Saturday January 16, 2010 @04:53AM (#1056748)
Except to pay for one of these, you still pay via credit card, paypal, etc. that links to real identifiable info. I was wondering why, if one of the attackers instances were discovered by google, they didn't just hand it over to the authorities and have them get a subpoena for the account info? or maybe they did
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Re:Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks by rms on Saturday January 16, 2010 @04:58AM (#1056751)
If you can stage an attack like this, you can steal credit card numbers or phish your way to a Paypal account
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Re:Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks by tptacek on Saturday January 16, 2010 @12:42PM (#1057161)
Not that it matters (I'm sure if they're actually paying for VM's they're using stolen cards), but you can trade cash for anonymous credit card numbers in a number of places. Simplest example: Google "Vanilla VISA".
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