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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Hypothesis: They don't say which "[r]ecent press coverage". They could be referring to some badly-worded rehash of the Reuters story.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
> Well, they're clearly claiming that the "secret contract" as reported did not exist. Crap. They're only denying a carefully-worded strawman. They leave open: 1.) Adding support for a known-flawed PRNG for free and t
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
You can afford dozens of $10 domain names, but dozens of $10 SSL certs would break the bank?
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Security FYI: This situation concerns RSA keys, not 128-bit symmetric keys; our problem is "factoring a really big number", not "guessing a really big number". A 128-bit RSA key can be broken in seconds. RSA keys are com
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Yes. They can already do this more reliably by disabling your domain name, though (not to mention your hosting). Edit (T+16 minutes): I said "more reliably" because not all TLS clients perform CRL or OCSP checks -- as mentioned in
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Oh god, yes it is. Especially when you realize halfway through that the iPad cannot type "`". (You can copy and paste it, though.)
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
I don't have experience with mock, but I've used object() -- literally -- as a sentinel. _sentinel = object() def print_now(now=_sentinel): if now is _sentinel: now = time.time() ...
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
I hope "now" is never 1970-01-01 00:00:00. Edit: if now is None: now = time.time()
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Using RC4 in TLS isn't entirely crazy. People started doing it due to the BEAST vunerability, which was a mistake in how AES was used in older TLS versions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#BE
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law .se, huh?
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Was that credit card number used anywhere else? Given Linode's size, it's not surprising for a few customers to have had coincidental CC compromises recently.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Malicious traffic doesn't make routers burst into flame. Customers get compromised on a daily basis at any large provider due to bad SSH passwords or WordPress vulnerabilities or whatever. Assuming the virtualization system is trustworthy (
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by mnordhoff 14y ago
> Also some hypervisors (for example VMware) only executes a VM when they have as many cores as the VM has cores available for execution. So having many logical cores in your VM can negatively influence CPU scheduling. Good thing Linode
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by mnordhoff 16y ago
Eleven! https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_oldes...
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by mnordhoff 16y ago
It's really a toss-up. Dallas is the second-closest, obviously. London might give you a westward route across Eurasia instead of eastward through the US. I think I'd probably do Newark or London, avoiding Dallas in case most of North Americ
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by mnordhoff 16y ago
Reliability and uptime are not subjective questions. Linode uses good data centers. None of them are particularly better than the others. All data centers occasionally experience downtime; Fremont was just unlucky this time. The only thing
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by mnordhoff 16y ago
Old post, but... FYI, it uses the epoch of caker -- i.e. the birthday of caker, Linode's founder.
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by mnordhoff 17y ago
FWIW, Linode pro-rates billing to the day, crediting unused funds back to your account, which is usually flexible enough when you only want a VPS for a few days.
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by mnordhoff 17y ago
What's the difference? The data center employees handle physical stuff. It's not like the Linode HQ is close to Atlanta, Dallas or Fremont, either.