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A comment on The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks. Parent comment

Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by ryanlol on Saturday January 30, 2016 @11:18AM (#11002393)
>Just so I understand: his claim, which doesn't constitute advice of any kind and doesn't ask for any action on the part of the reader, requires substantiation? But your claim, which does have a suggested course of action for the reader, does not require further elucidation?

I'm not sure if tptacek implied the claim requires substantiation, but IMO naming and shaming is just the ethical thing to do when someone is covering up hacks.

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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by fweespeech on Saturday January 30, 2016 @03:32PM (#11003612)
Yes, but not if you found out such from confidential information you agreed to keep confidential.

But in all seriousness, I don't know a single provider that sells cheap VPSs [e.g. At Linode's price point] and actually has something resembling security.

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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by ryanlol on Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:13PM (#11004038)
You keep talking about how Linode is cheap, but when I look on their site their prices are absolutely insane. Am I missing something?

>Yes, but not if you found out such from confidential information you agreed to keep confidential.

Debatable.

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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by fweespeech on Saturday January 30, 2016 @09:46PM (#11004996)
> You keep talking about how Linode is cheap, but when I look on their site their prices are absolutely insane. Am I missing something?

Its roughly the same as DO, etc. Yes, its more expensive than buying a dedicated server.

I define anything cheaper than AWS/Google Cloud/Azure/etc. as "cheap". I am assuming you are using a reasonable level of bandwidth [e.g. 100GB+] when making such statements.

Really the only places you can find even cheaper VMs is sites like lowendtalk.com and you really don't want to go that cheap if you can avoid it.

> Debatable

Let me put it this way, "contractually obligated to".

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Re:The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s H... by spdustin on Saturday January 30, 2016 @11:36AM (#11002490)
Fair enough. Tptacek named. "Shaming" strongly implies stating the actual flaw.

FWIW, I am aware of the past issues Linode has had, and hope they do get their act together.

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