Linode Hacked, Credit Cards and Passwords Leaked 112
An anonymous reader writes "On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes, source code fragments and directory listings have been released as proof. Linode has yet to comment on or deny these claims."
Re:Happy Tax Day! (Score:0, Interesting)
Or even better: what fraction of the country's budget did you pay? More than total_expenses/population, or less? That's a lot more relevant and important than percentage of income, and as close as possible to any meaningful measurement of what everyone's fair share is.
If my buddy and I spend $36 at a bar, ideally we ought to just be paying for our individual drinks. If keeping track of that (did I have more beers, or did you?) is too much of a pain in the ass, then splitting it 50/50 is best. Or I get it this time, you get it next time (50/50 over time). But fair share is never computed with some kind of how-much-does-someone make term in it. Suppose I make $35k/yr and my buddy makes $70k. Does that mean I should pay 1/3? That would be insane. No? Am I wrong about what's fair?
I don't think fairness is something we want to talk about. We should talk about the law, which isn't intended to be fair; it's intended to generate sufficient revenue, based on what harm each person is able to sustain. And from that we get income tax, rather than some kind of fairness-based per-capita tax. The more income you have, the more harm you can unfairly sustain. That is reasonable. We agree the harm is bad, we just don't quite agree on how much there should be, to balance the harms of anarchy.