[staunch]

I take it Google used Linode as a neutral/anonymous place to access stuff from?

[runevault]

That's how I read it.

[romland]

I read it that way too. But I am still very curious where and in which context Linode was mentioned in media.

[glymor]

"The servers used in both attacks employ the HomeLinux DynamicDNS provider, and both are currently pointing to IP addresses owned by Linode, a US-based company that offers Virtual Private Server hosting. The IP addresses in question are within the same subnet, and they are six IP addresses apart from each other,"

Quote attributed to VeriSign's iDefense security lab in http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/01/researchers-ide...