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I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.
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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…
Now we're both content to be wizards of our own domains without talking down to each other about it.
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Drop all port 123 packets that are heading to the DDOS'd server from anything but the authorized NTP server is a pretty good start.
Where do you drop the packets? If your filter is inside your own network, and your bottleneck is your network connection to the outside world, then you're out of luck. If you can arrange with your upstream internet access provider for them to filter out junk before it hits the bottleneck, then great - but that involves cooperating with people, which may take some time.
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If you were a former Google Reader user, you might like Feedbin. I've been with them for the last year or however long and have been fairly happy.
I've been using Digg Reader for a while and I'm actually kind of shocked that most people haven't moved to that. It has its bugs (sometimes showing incorrect numbers, the mobile app locks up sometimes), but it's honestly the best alternative that I've found so far. Maybe it has to do with its free-ness, as people worry about them shutting doors like Google Reader, but if you're looking for a free solution then I'd de…
I guess the demise of XP is still a long ways off. If there were no XP users remaining, could there still be enough hackable computers to create a large enough botnet?
I wonder why they're not using Cloudflare.
Not sure if they integrated CloudFlare now or it was present before.
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How does this solve the problem of another DDoS against some other RSS reader? Are you going to suggest that if Feedbin gets attacked next, to hop to the next product?
Or he saw the other guy is open to trying different RSS readers and simply made a recommendation.
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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.
Wow. FYI racket is defined as offering to solve a problem that does not exist, or that would not exist if the offerer wouldn't force it upon you. Unless you're claiming the blackmail group is made up of Cloudflare employees, you should choose your words more wisely.
DDoS wouldn't go away without booters, but many small cases like this would be significantly reduced.
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DDOS-for-hire websites are naturally unstable - if not for the protection CloudFlare provides, they would all knock one another offline and there would be no DDOS-for-hire websites (or only a single, expensive winner). Depending on your point of view, cloudflare providing the protection that makes DDOS-for-hire possible is either (a) them being fair and website-content-neutral, anything else would be censorship or (b…
The DDOS-for-hire company doesn't need a significant or even continuous web presence, does it? Seems ineffective to DDOS them. EDIT Surely many of these DDOS-for-hire companies cross into illegal territory. CF can maintain a content-neutral stance by kicking illegal activity off.
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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.
That's like saying bodyguards are a protection racket because muggers and assassins exist. Yes, it sucks to have to pay for defense, but that doesn't mean the problem is your defense vendor's fault, or that said vendor has done anything wrong at all.