encrypting your data doesn't help when it is inside memory and somebody else has root.
the attack was a hypervisor intrusion, linode's VM setup was hacked, none of these recommendations would have helped at all in this case.
the attack was a hypervisor intrusion, linode's VM setup was hacked, none of these recommendations would have helped at all in this case.
You sign no SLA with Linode. They make no guarantees. That leaves it up to you to make sure you're secure, and fortunately they give you the tools needed to make this a reality.