Quote from: vintagetrex on December 21, 2017, 10:28:56 PM

I think the most likely targets would be massive financial institution, not your dog Fido's personal homepage.

No, I think the most likely targets are sites such as bitcointalk.orgsee below. Plus the six million other sites which Cloudflare claims as customers. Plus sites which have been censored off the Internet by DDoS. And here, you want to (further) commercialize DDoSso that anybody with deep pockets (or Deep State connections) can more easily buy censorship on demand. Sounds like fun!

Do you really think that a big bank has a problem shielding its network behind another huge corporations anti-DDoS network? This isnt 2011 anymore. Theyre wise to this stuff. Yet the more you monetize DDoS, the more likely a big bank will secretly buy some extra DDoS against its most hated competitor, bitcointalk.org.

Quote from: vintagetrex on December 21, 2017, 10:28:56 PM

your logic: somehow all antisec is secretly in bed with some omnipotent security apparatus

No. My read is that either youre an undercover agent, or youre a patsy sleeping on the floor next to the foot of the bed of the omnipotent security apparatus while you delude yourself that youre fighting it.

Im not bothering with your video right now. Its too cumbersome with my high-security Tor setup.

P.S., I forgot:

Quote from: vintagetrex on December 21, 2017, 10:04:16 PM

the same argument could be made about bitcoin and ethereum, they're totally illegal but it happened and its worth money.

#technoactivism

What the hell are you talking about? Bitcoin isnt illegal. Unfortunately, neither is the absurdist centralized exploding clown car known as Ethereumthe coin which cant keep its promises that code is law.

Quote from: theymos on November 29, 2017, 08:07:39 PM

With regret, I am (for now) admitting defeat on the DDoS front, and we will soon be using using Cloudflare to protect against DDoS attacks. [...]

I really don't believe in willingly putting a man-in-the-middle in your HTTPS like this [...]

I especially dislike Cloudflare, which I'm almost certain is basically owned by US intelligence agencies. [...]

The Internet is seriously flawed if everyone needs to huddle behind these huge centralized anti-DDoS companies in order to survive...

The security implications are that Cloudflare can read everything you send to or receive from the server, including your cleartext password and any PMs you send or look at.