I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
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Re: I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
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#3Can we just skip to the end where the internet breaks into fiefdoms? AOL almost did it in the 90s.
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He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, followed by 3 years of probation, plus forfeiting $500k of proceeds
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...
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He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, followed by 3 years of probation, plus forfeiting $500k of proceeds https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...
Ok then. Better to have lead with that if it's going to be a central topic in the article.
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It's a rare "inside" viewpoint, so it's really not a bad option for initiating the conversation.
Let's also leave 'the law' to determining whether Rasbora should be paying fines. As well functioning, or otherwise, 'the law' is...
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It's a rare "inside" viewpoint, so it's really not a bad option for initiating the conversation. Let's also leave 'the law' to determining whether Rasbora should be paying fines. As well functioning, or otherwise, 'the law' is...
Apparently the law did determine in this case, and sought prison as well which is definitely more than I would have called for.
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#8How do we prevent DDOS without centralized services like these? There has to be something.
It would be nice if these attacks were blocked before they even get to a transit provider, but cheap server / VPN providers seem unmotivated to try to solve the problem (since they barely lose any money when they facilitate the DDOS, and/or the attacking devices are rogue IoT devices and booting them would mean booting legitimate customers who don't know the first thing about auditing their network for compromised devices).
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#9I don't think the author's argument makes sense.
Cloudflare's position is that they are neutral and will provide their services to anyone and everyone. They do not make those value judgements deciding who deserves their services or not.
The fact that they thus provide their service to booters isn't a flaw in Cloudflare's argument, in fact it's consistent with their position.
The author is implying that Cloudflare should independantly make that value judgement against a booter, rescind their services from the booter, thus allowing other booters to take that booter down? That's ridiculous. All the booters should be dealt with by some legal authority.
EDIT: So according to some comments cloudflare sometimes does decide independantly to rescind their services from some users? That would make them inconsistent in that case. The authors argument, that the solution to booting is more booting, still doesnt make sense tho imo. It's like the solution to too many guns is more guns.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, followed by 3 years of probation, plus forfeiting $500k of proceeds https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...
Ok then. Better to have lead with that if it's going to be a central topic in the article.
Write your own article then.