nenolod

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by nenolod 14y ago
The problem is that Linode is not anywhere near the "most transparent company out there."
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by nenolod 14y ago
you seem to be new to this, most companies lie all the time about the nature of their security compromises.
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by nenolod 14y ago
the database server is local, read the entire log...
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by nenolod 14y ago
the compression is unnecessary here, you're moving a max of less than a couple of hundred GB of data.
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by nenolod 14y ago
for the record, i am the person who started the WHT thread. there is a mixture of truth and lies on both sides, to be honest. i am annoyed with it, because i reached out to several linode employees privately to given them an opportunity to
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by nenolod 14y ago
dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M | ssh root@<newhost> dd of=/dev/sda bs=1M let SSH handle compression for you instead.
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by nenolod 14y ago
Except Linode didn't tell us that. Linode said it was a downstream customer's info that was compromised. Nothing about Linode itself.
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by nenolod 14y ago
Hacker News, wherein I find further motivation to immediately get my off-site services off of Linode...
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Pkgconf - a rewrite of pkg-config for embedded systems(github.com)
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by nenolod 14y ago
yes, Cisco discontinued the Guard module, which is unfortunate, as it did a pretty good job at determining what ACLs needed to be generated and applying them, and was actually much cheaper than the appliances. in terms of mitigation hardwar
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by nenolod 14y ago
your example is pointless as no actual datacenter actually pays their equipment vendor anywhere near list price for those devices. i certainly don't. network equipment vendors like to have high list prices in order to: - ensure they get sa
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by nenolod 15y ago
well, that's the danger of MLAT treaties in this time of multinational corporations. even though ahimsa.i.o was hosted in london, the datacenter facility was owned by rackspace which was based in the USA so they had to comply with the MLAT
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by nenolod 16y ago
you're expecting competence from HE? i colo'd at HE until last year when they ran ~400V through my racks which had 110V circuits, several PDUs and servers were damaged. that was the cherry on top of the sundae though, there had been 2 powe
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by nenolod 16y ago
use a DNS roundrobin with low TTLs and use monitoring to remove IPs when they go down. if you have 3 hosts in your production app's roundrobin, that makes it much less likely that they'll hit the dead server and if the TTL is 300, then it'
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by nenolod 16y ago
Yes, the PayPal debit cards are US-only. They also had virtual cards, which was an intriguing product, but it got cancelled when they got rid of the browser plugin.
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by nenolod 16y ago
PayPal will back you up on virtual services provided that you log the customer's IP so that you can prove that the access was legitimate (e.g. from the customer's IP that he uses to log into PayPal regularly). I have yet to lose on a charge
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by nenolod 16y ago
Google Checkout is a good alternative. We clear almost as much money through Google as we do through PayPal and they strictly concentrate on processing payments... unlike PayPal which tries to do more than that. But, it is only available i