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I don't know why so many guys here who obviously are not customers of linode care about this case so much, I've been a user of linode for 5 years, it's a compan

I don't know why so many guys here who obviously are not customers of linode care about this case so much, I've been a user of linode for 5 years, it's a company that you know you can trust, that's simply what I can tell from my experience.

threeseed 13y ago
I am a former customer who was burned the last time they were hacked and were less than truthful. Now it has happened again and nothing has changed. Clearly non existent security audits (cleartext passwords ?) and still lots of unanswered questions. It should be crystal clear by now that Linode is fundamentally untrustworthy.
- VLM 13y ago
  Typical hackernews binary thinking. Trust is a spectrum not a binary. I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't get my number stolen it pretty much restores my faith in humanity. Or I'd trust them more than the seedy psuedo-organized crime operator of my local gas station. Or the supermarket checker, again, juvenile and judgement proof. Would I date/marry/have kids with linode? Well probably not that much trust. Luckily rather than sharing precious bodily fluids with them, all I've been sharing is a 16 digit number which if lost can be replaced at no cost to myself other than some time. Where it gets fuzzy is something in the thousands of dollar range. Would I trust linode with the keys to my car? Well... it is insured, but the deductible is about a kilobuck because for me that's (more or less) pocket change...
  - pizzeys 13y ago
    > I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't get my number stolen it pretty much restores my faith in humanity. Know what we did in the UK to solve this problem? Identified it as a weakness and switched to a system that removes this weakness. Linode aren't too good at that bit.

threeseed 13y ago

I am a former customer who was burned the last time they were hacked and were less than truthful. Now it has happened again and nothing has changed. Clearly non existent security audits (cleartext passwords ?) and still lots of unanswered questions. It should be crystal clear by now that Linode is fundamentally untrustworthy.

VLM 13y ago
Typical hackernews binary thinking. Trust is a spectrum not a binary. I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't get my number stolen it pretty much restores my faith in humanity. Or I'd trust them more than the seedy psuedo-organized crime operator of my local gas station. Or the supermarket checker, again, juvenile and judgement proof. Would I date/marry/have kids with linode? Well probably not that much trust. Luckily rather than sharing precious bodily fluids with them, all I've been sharing is a 16 digit number which if lost can be replaced at no cost to myself other than some time. Where it gets fuzzy is something in the thousands of dollar range. Would I trust linode with the keys to my car? Well... it is insured, but the deductible is about a kilobuck because for me that's (more or less) pocket change...
- pizzeys 13y ago
  > I'd trust them more than the 16 yr old waitress at the local restaurant who is legally judgment proof and as a juvenile frankly has no punishment related reason not to rip me off. Every time I pay with a CC at a restaurant and don't get my number stolen it pretty much restores my faith in humanity. Know what we did in the UK to solve this problem? Identified it as a weakness and switched to a system that removes this weakness. Linode aren't too good at that bit.