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Comment by tedunangst

9 years ago

Bonus question: what is cloudflare's role in either enabling or preventing the ddos attacks that one requires cloudflare to survive?

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thaumaturgy  9 years ago

Do they enable any? I don't recall hearing about that.

  • r1ch  9 years ago

    They protect a large amount of the DDoS-as-a-service sites ("stress testers" or "booters").

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