Pissed off ? .... YES
Surprised ? ... Sadly ... no
My perspective as a host on all of this is as follows:
Solusvm is very hated, I have been guilty of much hate myself in the past, not of the people but the business, does that mean people should be trying to attack and destroy the business? No absolutely not.
No offence to anyone who is running their own panel but frankly I believe yours is probably much worse, this includes Stallion and Cloudware and any other one you want to name, that is being used, maintained and designed by a single host. Now let me qualify that.. everyone will jump on SolusVM for being insecure, poor support, things are broken, but the absolute undeniable truth is 99.9% of the time it is perfect for the job as the industry currently stands and it does make advances in functionality all the time.
As has been quoted SolusVM most probably pulls in half a million a year in pure profit, this is not pocket change, this is many many many times more money than even some of the bigger hosts in this scene, if anyone had a better product they would be going after this market share... in fact if anyone could do better we would not be having this conversation because someone would have already and solusvm would be thought of in the same way some of the more obscure panels are now.
This has nothing to do with "Giving and advantage" unless your company makes more than half a million profit per year with almost zero overhead in man hours or financial outlay then frankly I call BS on the legitimacy of the quality of your own product, you simply keep it secure by not allowing others to see it, writing a solusvm migration script is so simple it should not even be considered as a blocker in any panel, I have almost no coding experience but I can figure out how to nullify solusvm on any node and import the OVZ/Xen/KVM services in to other panels (Tired and tested on cloudmin) in less than an hour, I could shell script it in less than 2 hours)
I completely believe in people poking things with sticks to find holes, however I don't agree for one second with the way this is being done i.e. releasing the details of the hole with exploit code on a public blog while showing no effort to inform the vendor, this is an attack, it is an attempt to destroy solusvm simple as that.
As much as you all seem to enjoy kicking them when they are down... let me put this to some of you,... what are you going to do if this guy wins and destroys solusvm... switch to hypervm?? haha, this guy is not just attacking solusvm, he is attacking me, he is attacking Tim, Joe, Jarland, Ash, Jack etc etc and he is attacking everyone else too that is using solusvm, and guess what... that means you too as an end user of any host that also uses solusvm, he is giving away access to your VPS and all your data.
So anyone that supports the actions of the person releasing these exploits supports the attack on my company and every other company here that uses solusvm and my advice would be gtfo of here and go and offer to keep watch for some burgers instead, I don't see you any as any different, I have said it one and I I will say it again, this sort of thing deserves 2 years in jail minimum.
What do you do when you see a shop door that has been left in an insecure state?... do you report it to the store or authorities or do you assume that this gives you the right to enter the store and fuck everything up inside it then walk away laughing because fuck them for leaving the door like that, and then do you think you will be able to blame them for what you did later?
Think about it.