Comment by m0ng0l01d
10 years ago
With respect to the security: Why do think this is the case? Are they just big, bad meanies? Are they doing this at random? Or are your countrymen obnoxious to the point that such defensive measures are required to protect cloudflare's customers and business? Their defenses aren't free to them either, you know, so there has got to be some kind of business reason for cloudflare to spend the money on them.
>Their defenses aren't free to them either, you know, so there has got to be some kind of business reason for cloudflare to spend the money on them.
The business reason exists, the point is, to think about what the reasoning behind it was, and whether it is valid. For e.g. it could be for pure marketing reasons, or the result of not understanding the consequences, or because they were copying some other business' decision, or because they got the wrong advice from a security consultant, or about a million other explanations as to how/why businesses make decisions - other than some ideal that all business decisions are the result of pure rational thought.
Oil changes are not free, and yet people continue to think they need to do them every 3000 miles.