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

@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.