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Truly phenomenal work from @flyingpenguin here. A breakdown of the timeline of the Ubuntu attack, the business behind the booter service, and Cloudflare's problematic role.

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin

May 11 at 4:53pmWeb
Show threadAstridMay 11
@mttaggart @flyingpenguin It seems fair to observe that in addition to the apparent blackmail, Cloudflare aided hackers for a nation state that is currently an enemy of the United States, which is the country in which Cloudflare resides. I suspect their legal team will be receiving some uncomfortable phone calls and letters in the coming weeks.
Show threadArcaikMay 11

@mttaggart @flyingpenguin > Whether Cloudflare designed this position or arrived at it through the aggregation of unrelated customer decisions is, from the perspective of how a racket operates, immaterial. It works the same either way.

In other words, the purpose of system is what it does.

Show threadSpaceLifeFormMay 11

@mttaggart @flyingpenguin

Nice extortion racket you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

cc: @cR0w

Show threadTodd KnarrMay 12
@mttaggart @flyingpenguin I'd love to have the kind of money Bezos and them do. Cloudflare would be out of business in a month, all I'd have to do is start up an equivalent service with one rule: any entity associated with an attack on our customers is blacklisted from our services.
Show threadWelkinMay 12
@mttaggart @flyingpenguin
It is the same stuff. Spam their customers and then sell their customers a service that prevents spamming.