Re:Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen
by nknight on Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:14PM
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Why are you looking at it as "X has the same assurance as Y" instead of "Y has the same assurance as X"?
If you've got a vault that holds a massive diamond, and a little gold ring, do you become concerned because the diamond "only" has the protection of a little gold ring?
I'll freely admit I've only been thinking about this since reading this article, so I'm both not-fully-informed and I'm thinking about it as a response to some guy losing ~$13k, but to me it's _not_ reasonable.
(And my $19.95 number is perhaps hyperbolically chosen from their least expensive vps offering - but my assumption would be that the management/hypervisor back end would be shared across their entire infrastructure, so I think my argument holds, in that I'd expect the higher priced offerings to "only" have the employee-reliability-assurance of the cheapest vps…)