I wish to clarify that I did not ask for the data. rg specified in one of the 9,000 other threads that GLBSE had backups. It was easy to deduce from this that they were a BitVPS client. Since he had already violated the confidence of his client, and rg being a little confused about how computers work, I wanted to help clarify for him that if the application is running on one of the servers or instances that he managed, it is extremely likely that the data was local as well.
I do not advocate releasing the information to a single entity unless compelled by court or requested by GLBSE. I cannot see an upside.
mm. In bold is why, despite being a shareholder in BitVPS, I will not use the service. Having seen rg publicly disclose what I would consider to be confidential customer information (past due bills, accounts, and more) I have a certain lack of trust in rg's discretion (though, in truth, it seems to just be poor judgement, nothing sinister)
Upside, or not, there's no good reason to do so without being legally compelled.
IIRC, the services run on BitVPS were just front end (nginx?) proxies to the backend data servers which were not located at BitVPS - thus, likely no data cached or saved there.
And i dont care so much about people trying to buy it, i just tell them to fuck off.
It's just annoying that when i said 'GLBSE has backups', reeses took that to mean that i copied the db and was bragging about it.
That shit is damaging to our companies rep cause people are stupid enough to believe him.
I never had access to the db and never wanted it.
Releasing information, inadvertently, in an attempt to calm the seething masses was your unwise move here, rg. What's damaging to your company is disclosing any information about your customers' services, accounts, or configurations without their explicit permission. It's damaging because you potentially leave someone with the wrong impression about how you operate the company, whether that person is like reeses, or like the person that subscribes to whatever impression reeses gave them about the situation.
Releasing information is as simple as "GLBSE has backups" or ";;later tell $BitVPS_Customer Hey, you're 2 months late, we're going to shut off your services in XX days if you don't pay" - the latter (which I paraphrase from another episode I witnessed) discloses potentially very significant data (the customer company is in trouble, has no money, can't pay bills, might have already skipped, etc) You just can't continue to do this and expect there to be no repercussions.