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@matteob I wasn't calling you a scammer and I didn't mean the problems in both threads were similar. I've never had an account with seflow and have no opinion of your service. I was juxtaposing the threads to show how in each instance MTR tunnel-vision was a diversionary focus that didn't...

Yeah, but I could have not used a VPN and still masqueraded as anyone. Could have used any false name and they would have accepted the order... simply because I wasn't connecting through a VPN? That seems to make less sense than denying someone for using their 'real name' while connecting...

*in embittered Donald Duck voice* Well, well, well...

Gotta love the 'choose your battles wisely with us' school of tech support. The school of inflexible anachronistic canned responses is neck and neck with the school of 'technical correctness is the new political correctness' for a close second.

Yeah, what a sales pitch. "Do you like privacy? Then try our new VPN service! Just don't use a VPN to acquire it and make sure to relinquish your identity through insecure channels during the sign-up process. It's a one-way street, though, so don't expect the same of us. Wait, why are you...

Gotta love how rather than respecting his wish for privacy and obscurity, they forced an empty vestige of his presence back into existence by creating a second account. So much for 'the right to be forgotten'. I think moderator consensus was that the privilege wouldn't be granted to anyone else...

No, I don't think that at all. I have nothing against providers who want to avoid headaches by preemptively blocking fraud orders (which is exactly what mine was not). I simply think there was mindless acquiescence to the pseudo-infallibility of the fraud checking robot, which is more a subject...

If you're an MTR fan you can always try this subsequent packet loss drama on LET: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/65489/seflow-stay-far-away-scammers-and-liars/p2#Comment_1323299 50% packet loss from more than one location and yet MTR didn't help to address anything about the deeper...

Except I didn't hide or falsify my identity, that's what I found amusing about it. I used my name and connected through one of the business servers I rent with OVH (tied to my business address). I doubt the support staff cared either, seemed more like mindless acquiescence to misfiring MaxMind...

Dunno, I just find it amusing when VPS Providers disallow 'proxies/VPNs' during sign-up (as if 'directly' connecting to the internet isn't already a proxy) ...but allow the VPS to be used as one? What is a VPS if not a proxy of sorts regardless of use? "You can have this proxy of ours but only...

lol that https://vpsboard.com/topic/3178-drmike-and-the-case-of-the-ten-gallon-fedora/ was locked

So much money invested in 'internet security' and yet it seems as if these sorts of events (i.e. database dumps from popular brands that go unreported) are just commonplace. All that money to keep the client oblivious! I guess more embarassing to admit it was squandered.

If you don't mind wading through all the classist shit talk re: not owning your own hardware or ARIN database Real Estate (the horror!) and think you can somehow 'add value' by way of monthly rental payments, then a reseller account is for you!

I don't really think my problem is with Provider X or @mpkossen's general failure as an admin, but more so that I'm a softy for a lot of the hopelessly lame scams out there. Like the scams you can see from a mile away, the endearing ones that are really transparent and clumsily executed (i.e...

Well I knew that too, for what it's worth. I 'simply' didn't imagine Oktay would sell me blacklisted IPs without telling me beforehand, lol. When I found out on my own after the fact and asked him about it, apparently he didn't have a single clean IP to his name at the time (for resold CC dedis...

Agreed that there is no need to name and shame. I have no interest in the data either, just figured these sorts of dumps usually/eventually end up in public anyway.

Too big for Ye Olde Paste Bin?

So much for that $3 / year VPS! At least they didn't ask for a passport.

That only works without SAS or SSD. By the way, when running a dd test, make sure to use 'dd if=/dev/urandom' for the most accurate results.