Meh... nothing about that is in the first page of Google results when I google Linode.  I wasn&#x27;t aware of the older hack incidents, because we weren&#x27;t Linode customers then and so there was no particular reason to pay attention to Linode news.<p>Anyway, if anyone is going to make a blanket statement like &quot;Don&#x27;t use X&quot;, there&#x27;s no harm in providing at least a high level explanation of <i>why</i> you&#x27;re saying that.   One shouldn&#x27;t assume other people keep up with the exact same news that they do.