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- Advertising for potential DDoS service buyers - Bragging rights - Experimentation Edit: Also potentially political or personal. Eg Posting something that o
by throwamay1241 7y ago
- Advertising for potential DDoS service buyers
- Bragging rights
- Experimentation
Edit: Also potentially political or personal. Eg Posting something that offends 8chan||nation states etc.
There's quite often blackmail involved (Pay us $x BTC and we go away).
Cloudfront or similar should offer DDoS protection for free as a gesture of goodwill, it's good bragging rights for CF so everyone wins.
- MayeulC 7y ago> Cloudfront or similar should offer DDoS protection for free as a gesture of goodwill, it's good bragging rights for CF so everyone wins. Well, it is still a lot of wasted resources (bandwidth, energy, compute) for everyone involved (ISP, CF, attacker, defender, compromised machines), so I wouldn't be so quick to say that "everyone wins".
- throwamay1241 7y agoConsider it a 'cost of doing business'. Everyone gets DDoSed, I'm pretty sure that's one of CloudFronts primary service-based solutions
- betaby 7y agoWikipedia is behind Cloudflare at that moment.