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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 t

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.

leakslikeasieve 11y ago
Are you Jesse Nicholson? Is Linode paying you to write this? This reads like a Linode executive wrote it. That's the kind of thing you should disclose. Your only two HN comments are regarding Linode; pretty suspicious. You also commented on their blog post: TechnikEmpire January 6th, 2016 at 10:28 pm. It's hilarious watching all of these armchair experts criticize Linode for the actions of another. PagerDuty and WP Engine were both compromised 'inexplicably' during the same timeframe at the same hosting provider. Seems pretty self explanatory. Linode didn't disclose their "security firm" so why should PagerDuty? Linode couldn't explain how accounts were accessed and it isn't the first time! Linode is hacked once a year; it's a feature. They need to get their shit together and stop pretending security is a game.

leakslikeasieve 11y ago

Are you Jesse Nicholson? Is Linode paying you to write this? This reads like a Linode executive wrote it. That's the kind of thing you should disclose. Your only two HN comments are regarding Linode; pretty suspicious. You also commented on their blog post: TechnikEmpire January 6th, 2016 at 10:28 pm. It's hilarious watching all of these armchair experts criticize Linode for the actions of another. PagerDuty and WP Engine were both compromised 'inexplicably' during the same timeframe at the same hosting provider. Seems pretty self explanatory. Linode didn't disclose their "security firm" so why should PagerDuty? Linode couldn't explain how accounts were accessed and it isn't the first time! Linode is hacked once a year; it's a feature. They need to get their shit together and stop pretending security is a game.