* protection for our clients
* drum up business for the market as a whole
* make competitors look bad -- especially if they get attacked directly
After all, breaking a window makes money for the glaziers.
They provide DDoS protection to DDoS providers that would otherwise have taken each other down, so those providers can find clients for their services which further necessitates Cloudflare’s main product.
Given many DDOSs are originated by botnets, is this possible?
also I think there was a thing on krebs where a reputation defender company was also operating one of those mugshot search sites
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...