I'm curious what kind of losses you've seen since your own data breach. I'm sorry but you have far too many plausible ulterior motives for taking the position that you are taking.
1) As someone else pointed out, you're an ex-employee of Linode. You went out of your way to hide this fact. I'll refrain from listing all of the very obvious reasons why your word on Linode should be taken with a grain of salt at the very least.
2) Being able to blame Linode for your own data breach is a fantastically easy (although lazy) way to pacify customers about the fact that their personal data was just pilfered by someone on your watch.
All that being said, what have you presented that can be proven? All that can be proven is that you're an ex Linode employee. Everything else is hot air that we're all meant to take your word. Tons of appeal to authority in your explanations. You keep invoking some mysterious third party "expert" security group who conveniently agrees with everything your own company "discovered." If you were actually confident in your own abilities and that of your team members, there wouldn't be an immediate appeal following every attempted assertion.
Plus, even if you really did hire someone, what company isn't going to just say "yes" and agree to whatever PR campaign their customer is saying while dumping wheelbarrows of cash into their pockets? Frankly I don't believe you, and I find your consistent drumming against Linode to be highly suspicious in the wake of these attacks. You're not involved, are you?
The Linode post you're referring to is just saying that they expired everyone's passwords. That's not admitting anything, especially not admitting anything about a separate incident from a year ago. What lawyer would ever take this and say "okay, you can legally publicly blame linode now?" No lawyer worth his salt. In other words, you're full of shit. Your story if full of holes, tells, and I think you should stop posting so much garbage before you're on the receiving end of a lawsuit or are considered a suspect.
Whenever I see top level comments where people are saying "this is what you get for not going with X", I am more and more convinced that a competitor is doing this. I for one am not leaving Linode. I JUST recommended to several new clients to setup at Linode and I've already had to explain that server setup is halted because of this attack. Did I recommend moving away from Linode? Nope. Did I hang my head in shame or stutter when I delivered the news, feeling it would reflect poorly on me or Linode? Nope. I told my clients this is the best place for them and I stick by it. Just because there are scumbags specifically attacking your service right now, doesn't mean another service is better, or that your service is poor. It just means that hey, news flash, there are scumbags in the world.
1) As someone else pointed out, you're an ex-employee of Linode. You went out of your way to hide this fact. I'll refrain from listing all of the very obvious reasons why your word on Linode should be taken with a grain of salt at the very least.
2) Being able to blame Linode for your own data breach is a fantastically easy (although lazy) way to pacify customers about the fact that their personal data was just pilfered by someone on your watch.
All that being said, what have you presented that can be proven? All that can be proven is that you're an ex Linode employee. Everything else is hot air that we're all meant to take your word. Tons of appeal to authority in your explanations. You keep invoking some mysterious third party "expert" security group who conveniently agrees with everything your own company "discovered." If you were actually confident in your own abilities and that of your team members, there wouldn't be an immediate appeal following every attempted assertion.
Plus, even if you really did hire someone, what company isn't going to just say "yes" and agree to whatever PR campaign their customer is saying while dumping wheelbarrows of cash into their pockets? Frankly I don't believe you, and I find your consistent drumming against Linode to be highly suspicious in the wake of these attacks. You're not involved, are you?
The Linode post you're referring to is just saying that they expired everyone's passwords. That's not admitting anything, especially not admitting anything about a separate incident from a year ago. What lawyer would ever take this and say "okay, you can legally publicly blame linode now?" No lawyer worth his salt. In other words, you're full of shit. Your story if full of holes, tells, and I think you should stop posting so much garbage before you're on the receiving end of a lawsuit or are considered a suspect.