RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116518022621367937

some years ago, I reported a booter service run by lizardsquad to cloudflare.

cloudflare passed on my information -to- lizardsquad, who proceeded to send me death threats.

so, y'know. cloudflare's got more'n a decade of precedent of vigorously defending bad actors on their platform.

and really, I think we can all assume that the large tech companies are pure evil at this point generally; expecting them to do the ethical thing will only give you disappointment.

this is incredibly frustrating.

@munin Isn't that why we're all here?
@munin Not really relevant, but “booter” is the boot full of water you get in a Winnipeg thaw, when the “solid” snow or ice you’re walking on suddenly collapses into an underlying pool of meltwater. I could see booter-as-a-service being quite profitable as a minor revenge tactic, really…

@munin I once talked about how it was bad for business for cloudflare to be protecting a certain doxxing site. Not any or accusative, just pointing out that there's a lot of people like me making networking decisions mostly know them for being protectors of abuse.

My home address and a death threat were posted by the end of the day

@foone @munin It is really weird that they bother with those instead of making sure their servers don't go down because of 201 parameters passed into production without testing it in a staging environment.
@munin Cloudflare is the sixth largest source of bot traffic on the internet - according to Cloudflare! I block a few Cloudflare IP ranges.

@skewray @munin We've now gone past the point where not only can we not have good things, we can't have borderline bad things, either. Soon the things which are moderately bad will be taken away from us.

I'm beginning to see a pattern...

@munin I once reported CSAM to @cloudflare - Like, a URL with CSAM on the open web, no login necessary, just visit the page to verify. No brainer, right?

Cloudflare is a network provider offering a reverse proxy, pass-through security service. We are not a hosting provider. Cloudflare does not control the content of our customers.

They never took them down.

I don't know about you @cloudflare but if I was providing services to someone who was distributing CSAM and was made aware of it - I would make sure to ban them hard AND report them to the relevant authorities.

You may not control the content of your customers, but you make a choice to let them use your platform.

@munin god, cloudflare sucks... does anyone know any alternatives that aren't pure evil?