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How one site beat back botnets, spammers, and the “4chan party van”

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34 pointsjgrahamc15 comments

The story has absolutely nothing to do with 4chan and doesn't even understand what "4chan party van" means:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chan-party-van

If anything it would be the internet hate machine (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-hate-machine), but I don't see 4Chan mentioned. I doubt they'd participate in dDOSing a Tor provider, not your personal army and all that.

TorGuard isn't a Tor provider. They're a VPN provider that specializes in BitTorrent.

This is a common enough misconception that I'm surprised the Tor Project hasn't enforced their trademark.

Uh OK my bad, thanks for the clarification. Still, I'd doubt 4Chan would take down a torrent-friendly VPN provider ;)

Yeah, the FBI didn't turn up at their door.

Before you have to read the whole article: even though the title suggests otherwise, the attack is not related to 4chan, but rather a "rival VPN service" as suspected by one TorGuard administrator. (TorGuard was the attacked website, a VPN provider)

They also don't know what the 4chan party van is, unless by "pizza and plumbing" they meant "arrest by the FBI".

Umm... errr... the 4chan Party Van is the FBI. Back in The Day, 4chan had basically only one real rule -no child pornography- and the people running the site were extremely conscientious about cooperating with law enforcement when people broke that rule. I assume they still are: it's just there there are more rules now, though most aren't the sort that will incur the wrath of the FBI when you break them.

The harassment described in the article also occurs, of course, but that's not the party van. It's more like what they'd call a raid.

Interesting as it is, this article reads as one long-form advert for CloudFlare.

jgrahamc works for CloudFlare

So nothing they did actually worked before shelling out to cloudflare? Nice advertisement but now I hate the author for misleading me that the article contains anything instructive.

If CloudFlare think they can stop 4chan from griefing them, they have another thing coming, I think. Calling out 4chan like this is like drawing a picture of Muhammad: just don't!

The irony is, that 4chan itself uses cloudflare according to moot > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6682625

When people say 4chan they usually mean "4chan users", so this is not very ironic IMO.

This is like when I was watching the Champions' League and got a hankering for some tasty Gazprom.

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