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It's always shocking to me, that people who can rise to a position where they can make the call to pay a ransom, can be this incredibly gullible/stupid/naive!
by Aelinsaar 11y ago
It's always shocking to me, that people who can rise to a position where they can make the call to pay a ransom, can be this incredibly gullible/stupid/naive!
- takeda 11y agoThis is more complex. $4k is not really that much for a company to spend. If you were wrong, well you lost someone's conference trip, if you were right you saved company much more. Anyway, I hate this CloudFlare articles, it's clever marketing. Essentially they say that if you would use their service you could call bluff, and save that $4k, while they also contribute to the problem by protecting all DDoS for pay services.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoIf you're wrong, you're potentially spending $4K to mark yourself as an especially likely target for someone who doesn't even have the resources to attack you. It's not JUST risk mitigation, it's also about furthering this ridiculous economy that's been springing up since the first XDCC bots were born.