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They used to run it but stopped (I want to say) around 2016 or 2017. Another poster here linked[0] to how dang confirmed it is to protect against a DDOS attack.
by judge2020 3y ago
They used to run it but stopped (I want to say) around 2016 or 2017. Another poster here linked[0] to how dang confirmed it is to protect against a DDOS attack.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939668
- usr1106 3y agoThe cert is Cloudflare today.
- judge2020 3y agoI meant to imply that Dang only re-added CF recently due to the attacks. They haven't used CF in many years to my knowledge.
- redcobra762 3y agoCert was issued over 9 months ago.
- ffpip 3y agoThe certificate is for *.ycombinator.com. The main YCombinator site might have been using Cloudflare seen years, and now HN might have been added to the same account to protect from a DOS attack. So might be the same cert?
- nuker 3y agoIt also means Cloudflare sees HN traffic in plaintext, including login/passwords