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In general, protecting an unpatched server takes work - perhaps manual configuration, perhaps extra server load on your proxies, perhaps retrospective damage co
by emn13 12y ago
In general, protecting an unpatched server takes work - perhaps manual configuration, perhaps extra server load on your proxies, perhaps retrospective damage control when it turns out your proxy rules are buggy - but it's clearly not reasonable to require them to do that work for free.
- thrownaway122 12y agoAs a counterpoint let's use a simple analogy. Me calling the police if I see someone breaking into my neighbours house takes effort as well. In this situation no one would expect that I should have my neighbour to pay me a retainer first.
- thrownaway122 12y agoTo late to edit this and it came out a little further to one side of the argument than I was going for. A better analogy would be what one would expect from a private security company which is contracted to protect certain houses businesses. They might phone the police if a house they are not contracted to protect is broken into as a matter of public duty but they would not attempt to intervene themselves. I guess one could draw a similar line somewhere (I'm not sure where) for Cloudflare who are effectively the digital equivalent .