Comment by r3trohack3r

> CloudFlare is a fire department that prides itself on putting out fires at any house regardless of the individual that lives there, what they forget to mention is they are actively lighting these fires and making money by putting them out!

This doesn’t seem like a fair analogy. When I read the quote I expected to dig into the article and find that Cloudflare was somehow intentionally optimizing their network for carrying out DDoS attacks against non-customers in some sort of shady under the table dealings.

In this case the fire department is not lighting fires. They are not committing arson. They are saving all houses including the houses of arsonists.

It doesn’t seem like this kid used Cloudflare to carry out DDoS attacks (burn down houses). It seems like they used Cloudflare to keep their own house from burning down and then went and committed arson on their own.