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This is insanely dumb. Cloudflare is providing free hosting services, not materially supporting the attacker. You can argue that cloudflare needs to be better,

This is insanely dumb. Cloudflare is providing free hosting services, not materially supporting the attacker. You can argue that cloudflare needs to be better, or adopt different values towards, taking down sites they host, but this organization could absolutely just serve elsewhere (or just advertise their services over telegram or the like). Maybe there is a point to be made about monopoly power in hosting and ddos protection. I don't really see how this blog post, or labelling it blackmail, help make that point.

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mjd 5mo ago
It's not dumb. There's a conflict of interest.
- sophacles 5mo ago
  Yeah, I demand all my hosting providers be 100% vulnerable to DDoS for this reason.
nijave 5mo ago
Seems unavoidable if you're running DDoS protection services. Of course the people performing the attack also don't want to get attacked back. Taking down their info site wouldn't have made the attack go away anyway.