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Cloudflare should just run a public ddos sink with live traffic dashboard so the attackers can demonstrate their power there and leave the rest of us alone. /s

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The funniest thing is that this doesn’t strike me as a terrible idea, though maybe it looks bad from a marketing perspective:

“Look, if you’re trying to sell DDoS services, go right ahead, demonstrate your ability on our infrastructure. That way you’ll also know not to target our infrastructure”

But at the same time that might genuinely be a positive for the net. Just like the drug epidemic — you can’t stop people from doing it, but you can reduce the potential harm

Good for the internet but then there would be less attacks on real websites, who is cloudflare going to charge people for protection? Could be a good nonprofit idea though, get some hosting companies together and donate band with to a central target to get people to stop targeting their actual customers.

This is straight out of the onion. I love it so much.

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