Genuine question: What does anyone have to gain from Linode's misfortune? What sort of group would do this?
Github was attacked by China before I believe for hosting some firewall by-passing software.
Maybe a competitor, but who would bother to go that low? I can't imagine any of the popular ones trying it -- too much risk it will be exposed.
But the vps market is fairly crowded, I can't imagine what attacking a single competitor would actually accomplish.
I don't know... unless Linode has a large presense in a country where this level of play is expected. I have hard time imagining a large US cloud / hosting company comparible in size or customer base with Linode trying it. There is too high a risk, someone will talkt and reveal it.
BF Skinner, famous behavioral psychologist, wrote about this in "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" -- that much of positive emotions coming from choosing to do the morally "righteous" action exist because of the capacity for evil.
Yes I am :)
It would be easy to engage in morally bad behaviour, yet for the most part we don’t. This is a very good.