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Patching the Internet in Realtime: Fixing a Current WordPress Brute Force Attack
- jcr 14y ago> Because CloudFlare sits in front of a significant portion of web requests we have the opportunity to, literally, patch Internet vulnerabilities in realtime. I really do admire CloudFlare, respect the things they do, and I've even been in contact with some of the great people working there like jgrahamc. The trouble is, I'm having a negative reaction to the above claim. I don't have access to the data needed to confirm or deny the claim of CloudFlare being in front of "a significant portion of web requests" but as far as I know, any such claim is false. Even the T1 carriers (i.e. backbone providers) can never make factual claims of such magnitude, and by design, a vast quantity of internet traffic will get routed over the networks of at least one of the few dozen T1 providers on the planet. Can CloudFlare provide data to support their claim, or if need be, scale back their marketing-speak to avoid seeming disingenuous?