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It used to be very rare for DDoS providers to publicly advertise their services, you kinda had to know a guy who knew a guy. If you put up a website offering th
by mike_d 2y ago
It used to be very rare for DDoS providers to publicly advertise their services, you kinda had to know a guy who knew a guy. If you put up a website offering this service the Good Guys of the Internet would track you down and get your provider to take you down, or that provider would in turn get disconnected from the internet.
Now they hide behind Cloudflare who will refuse to turn over any information so that security folks can get them taken down. Unfortunately Cloudflare has grown too large that we can't just block all of it or depeer them like we would any other network that provided services to bad actors.
- jltsiren 2y agoThat kind of vigilante justice is part of the general lawlessness. Most of the listed domain names are under US jurisdiction. That means the authorities should be able to take them down. If Cloudflare is found to have been knowingly enabling crime, it could face fines, and the CEO and other key people could end up in prison. The Cloudflare services have probably been paid using means that are under US jurisdiction. Those payment accounts can be closed and the people behind them tracked down and potentially charged with crimes. Or at least that's how things work in the real world. The internet is still apparently too new for the authorities to understand how to deal with it.
- greyface- 2y agoIt's true that you can't practically block Cloudflare without impacting legitimate users, but they can absolutely be depeered if you're willing to pay a higher transit bill.