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Comment by cookiengineer

8 months ago

You forget to mention that the DDoS traffic causing these issues are also behind cloudflare, but they don't give a damn about them, for obvious business reasons.

Cloudflare controls supply and demand, which, by definition of the law, should be classified as extortion.

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greyface-  8 months ago

> should be classified as extortion.

It meets the definition of a RICO "enterprise". The question is, will anyone bring it up for judicial review?

  • gruez  8 months ago

    >It meets the definition of a RICO "enterprise".

    1. It's probably not RICO[1]

    2. Are businesses under any obligation to take down shady businesses (eg. DDoS services that are ostensibly stress testing services) absent a court order?

    [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180305062824/https://www.popeh..., specifically sections "Wait. Isn't the defendant the enterprise?" and "So what's "racketeering activity"?"

  • cookiengineer  8 months ago

    Look up "www.crimeflare.org/cfs.html" in the web archive on http port 82.

    This guy ran a DNS for years to prove it until he disappeared. Lots of nazi websites, ddoxing sites, crime networks, conspiracy sites, ransomware groups and russian misinformation campaigns that he uncovered.

    Honestly I don't see another way to gather the data necessary for this otherwise. You have to have the DNS data to be able to imply intent.