I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.
they seem to be using Cloudflare now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6sx8li6d0eioxwt/Screenshot%202014-...
Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Cloudflare is knowingly providing cover to the DDOS-for-hire companies after being informed of what they are doing, that's a big bunch of bullshit right there. Just because a company temporarily relocates behind Cloudflare doesn't mean CF is guilty, though. They can't vet every website before it goes up and each time it updates. If they aren't kicking these guys off their network for performing the same activities…
If Cloudflare kicked accused DDOS-for-hires, the first step in any DDOS campaign would become "accuse target of being DDOS-for-hire". That wouldn't actually be a step forward for DDOS victims who use Cloudflare, because then they would have to provide human input to some sort of appeal process ASAP, rather than Cloudflare just working automatically to thwart an attack.
An accusation should not be sufficient, obviously. Why can't CloudFlare take abuse complaints, verify and take action based on that?
In fact, this is precisely what they've done in the past, though they'd only provide the host details rather than stopping service to a site. (I don't think they'll even go this far anymore, rather they'll give you the abuse email for the host and tell you to have the host contact them, which is ridiculous.) I've filed a few such complaints myself. In one instance, the booter site didn't provide any info about its services without registration, so I linked to the hackforums thread where it was being offered. CloudFlare declined this as sufficient proof. Luckily, I could register an account without payment, and that gave me the options to pay to launch attacks, so I sent the login details to CloudFlare and they accepted that.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tell dont not to open .exe file in Email. "What is .exe files?" Dont use IE "What is IE? Next time they click on it to get to the Internet" Can You please stoping using XP? "Why should I pay for upgrade when everything i do is working perfectly fine?" Honestly, there are people who dont know Shxt. And they dont want to know about it either. To them even basic computer usage is extremely complex. That is why Tablet, i…
How much do you know about your car's internal combustion engine and components? Your home electrical? Your home plumbing? Natural Gas? Lawn care? The pumps that fuel your car tank? Not everyone can be an expert in everything. Someone who makes their living perfecting one of those aspects might look at things you do and say "don't do that, you're damaging it" but to you its "who cares? I just need it to work and its…
I would have expected a lot of HN users and a majority of those working professionally in technology to have at least basic high school knowledge of electrical and mechanical principals.
If I where interviewing some one for a developer role and they had not at least heard of ohms law or similar basic principals I would probably pass on them.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#104I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.
If you read the comments on the Feedly blog, they are using Cloudflare.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#105I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.
Cloud flare is a protection racket. Some people don't use them on principle. They are the vendor selling chastity belts to stop rape. It is in their best economic interest that these attacks continue. It's sad that to run a service now the expectation is to shovel money to another service to absorb UDP packets.
I have upvoted the comment to protest HN people downvoting comments that they disagree. The comment is by no means spam, off-topic, etc.; the only problem is that it lacks one-or-two links to some backing information.
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#106I was just wondering why I couldn't hop on Feedly. I feel sort of bad that this is what makes me finally self host my RSS reader, since it's totally out of their control, but I've been planning on jumping ship for a while, it's just been low priority for me. Goread has been tempting me though, so I guess I'll check it out.
I'm in the same boat. Was thinking of leaving for awhile, feel kind of bad this is what pushed me off the edge. For me, I stopped and thought about how I access my RSS feeds. I used to be a pure desktop RSS reader, and then I started using both my phone and my desktop, and since Google Reader shut down I've mostly just been using Feedly on my phone. Since I only check my feeds on one device now, I don't need to worry…
try newsblur!
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#107What kind of low life do you have to be to do this kind of crap ? Is this what "hackers" do these days ?
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#108I wonder why nearly every self-hosted alternative RSS-reader here is a web-app; isn't using a desktop-application desirable? Like Firefox, Thunderbird, Liferea[1], Akregator[2], and probably lots of OS X applications?
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#109I wonder why nearly every self-hosted alternative RSS-reader here is a web-app; isn't using a desktop-application desirable? Like Firefox, Thunderbird, Liferea[1], Akregator[2], and probably lots of OS X applications? [1] http://lzone.de/liferea/ [2] http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/
So much of what you're reading in RSS-reader is web content, naturally you'd want to click through things in your existing browsing experience. At least that's how I view it. I'd like to use a desktop-app but find myself never opening running it and instead jumping to feedly/google-reader etc.
I'd really like to have a desktop-app w/o web service that sync'ed to my phone which I also like to read rss on.
Re: Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
#110I wonder why nearly every self-hosted alternative RSS-reader here is a web-app; isn't using a desktop-application desirable? Like Firefox, Thunderbird, Liferea[1], Akregator[2], and probably lots of OS X applications? [1] http://lzone.de/liferea/ [2] http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/
So much of what you're reading in RSS-reader is web content, naturally you'd want to click through things in your existing browsing experience. At least that's how I view it. I'd like to use a desktop-app but find myself never opening running it and instead jumping to feedly/google-reader etc. I'd really like to have a desktop-app w/o web service that sync'ed to my phone which I also like to read rss on.
Multiple devices is the main reason I rely on a web service.