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CloudFlare: Use or Snub?

clem57

I found this in Wikipedia:

CloudFlare was ranked in the 7th rank among the top 50 Bad Hosts by Host Exploit.[31] The service has been used by Rescator, a website that sells payment card data.[32][33][34]

Two of ISIS' top three online chat forums are guarded by CloudFlare but U.S. law enforcement has not asked them to discontinue the service.[35]

An October 2015 report found that CloudFlare provisioned 40% of SSL certificates used by phishing sites with deceptive domain names resembling those of banks and payment processors.[36]

On November 2015, Anonymous

discouraged the use of CloudFlare's services, following the ISIS attacks in Paris

and renewed accusation of providing help to terrorists.[37]

CloudFlare responded by calling their accusers "15-year-old kids in Guy Fawkes masks" and saying that they consult "actual anti-terrorism experts" and that they "abide by the law

 

 

Although they may be good to some people, the facts above leads me to think that  money is the ONLY motive for their business model? Feel free to comment.

 

Clem

  • We like DNS, we think you might too.

    CloudFlare and Gandi are hosting a three-part series on DNS. Our first event will be at the CloudFlare office with Paul Mockapetris, the original inventor of the Domain Name System.

    Beyond inventing DNS, Paul built the first ever SMTP server. He ran networking at ARPA, served as the chair of the IETF, and is a honored member of the Internet Hall of Fame. He is currently the Chief Scientist at Threatstop, and the visiting scholar at the Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.

    The event is on Tuesday, April 12th, 2016 at 6 PM PDT at our office in San Francisco, 101 Townsend Street (RSVP here). We’ll be covering the early days of DNS, DNS and security, the commercialization of DNS (what Paul famously calls DN$), and the future of DNS.

    So come, grab some beer, and hang out with people who like DNS as much as you do.

     

    https://http2.cloudflare.com/come-geek-out-with-the-original-inventor-of-dns-at-cloudflare/

  • Hi Clem,

    I know nothing about CloudFare, but generally I think none of these businesses perform any significant checks : (

    I don't recall any particularly onerous checks with (say) GoDaddy either.

    Still, it doesn't sound a very interesting company so maybe better to avoid it anyway! They do sound like they have immature people working for them if they really did say that comment about kids in masks that you mention.