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Surprised no one has linked this back-and-forth discussion at Blackhat 2013 between cybercrime investigative reporter Brian Krebs and CloudFlare CEO Matthew Pri
by j_s 9y ago
Surprised no one has linked this back-and-forth discussion at Blackhat 2013 between cybercrime investigative reporter Brian Krebs and CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince regarding CloudFlare's hosting of "booters"/DDOS marketing sites. I will put a bit of the conversation here, but please do listen to it in context.
https://youtu.be/wW5vJyI_HcU?t=45m17s https://youtu.be/wW5vJyI_HcU?t=45m17s
(quoting CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince below, aka eastdakota on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=eastdakota https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=eastdakota )
45:52 "Where would you draw the line?"
47:25 "It's really tricky when private organizations act as law enforcement"
47:33 "We try to follow what is due process"
47:56 smart-ass/sick burn re: Krebs's journalism
48:46 "We comply with any court order that we receive" (both takedowns and to not take things down) "unless we feel that it's truly abusive in these cases we [interrupted/unintelligible, maybe: would] ..."
49:00 "There have been some hacking-related sites that we have been asked to take down"
source: HN user kefka https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14654680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14654680