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I had a friend who tried messing with spammers and then was hit with a massive DDOS.

• StavrosK 10y ago
  Brb cloudflare. EDIT: Cloudflare has been enabled!
  • anondon 10y ago
    The free plan or a paid plan? If you are using the free plan, note that you aren't really getting DDoS protection. They offer "I'm under attack" mode which can be bypassed easily and it does not protect against l3 and l4 attacks.
    • StavrosK 10y ago
      Oh :( I'm on the free plan.
• yAnonymous 10y ago
  That won't work anymore when everyone does it.
• probably_wrong 10y ago
  Was your friend working for Blue Frog [1]? I always thought it interesting that no one seriously tried to replicate a tool so good at its job that spammers were actually scared. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog
  • StavrosK 10y ago
    That's exactly my question too. Blue Frog was so successful it was shut down.
  • michaelhoffman 10y ago
    No. He set up some one-off script to annoy people who spammed him. One of the spammers didn't take to it.