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ericcholis | karma 1189 | avg karma 2.33 · 2012-09-18 00:50:11+00:00

Part of me has to wonder, how wise is it to attack somebody such as Cloudflare? I know they are a juicy target. But, part of their job is to learn and defend against downtime. If their ops are worth a salt (and it appears they are), they've been logging every bit of information they can about these attacks. Logging allows them to do two things:

1) Learn how to mitigate the attack in the future

2) Catalog data on botnets

Cataloging data on these botnets is one sure way to get them shut down.

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dfc | karma 8584 | avg karma 2.15 · 2012-09-18 01:06:20+00:00

If you were one to brag about such things, what would you rather boast about?

I DOS'ed Billy Bob's Bike Repair website or I DOS'ed CloudFlare?

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dotBen | karma 7497 | avg karma 4.08 · 2012-09-17 22:56:36

Billy Bob's Bike Repair, because I know I can bring their site down. I also know that I won't be able to bring down CF or sites running behind their infrastructure so no g33k cred to be had, etc.

dfc | karma 8584 | avg karma 2.15 · 2012-09-18 12:16:06+00:00

You think CloudFlare is infallible? I use their service but I doubt they are the first company in the history of commerce that is perfect.

TazeTSchnitzel | karma 26116 | avg karma 2.81 · 2012-09-18 16:22:12+00:00

They aren't, but they are very, very hard to bring down or slow down without a very big botnet.

eastdakota | karma 9552 | avg karma 15.21 · 2012-09-18 01:08:49+00:00

Yup. We've got tons of data on the machines launching these attacks. We're working on a plan to begin publishing it so even sites not on CloudFlare can better protect themselves. Stay tuned.