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Re:8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise by taligent on Thursday August 16, 2012 @06:21AM (#4390655)
You shouldn't be a happy Linode customer. They still haven't owned up to what happened during that Bitcoin incident and what they've done to stop it happening again. Major security incidents DEMAND transparency e.g. look how professional Cloudflare was.

So for all you know your VPS could still be hacked in seconds despite whatever security measures you have in place.

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Re:8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise by cilo on Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:42AM (#4391449)
The bitcoin incident was a xen exploit that they couldn't talk about until Xen provided a fix and disclosed themselves. They talk about it, without referencing the bitcoin incident specifically, here http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-an...
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Re:8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise by ZoFreX on Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:19AM (#4390832)
What was "that Bitcoin incident"?
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Re:8 reasons that a VPS is more awesome than you realise by gpjt on Thursday August 16, 2012 @12:45PM (#4392215)
Second hit on the Google results for "linode bitcoin incident" is this: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-service-linode-hacke...
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