On: Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen

[RLG_RLG]

> but at what point is it safe to assume that if you get hacked, it's not going to be because your ISP got hacked

If you co-locate your hardware at a data center and your staff competently secures your systems.

[spindritf → RLG_RLG]

Secure with what? A booby trap? There's always a level of trust you need to have for your provider. Even when you get a cage in their DC.

[RLG_RLG → spindritf]

Set low level passwords and use filesystem encryption. eg: passwords on all networking devices, boot loaders, and BIOS.

Three letter agencies and foreign governments could attack your data if they took it off line, but you monitoring should detect that.