KickassTorrents resurfaces online

Re:KickassTorrents resurfaces online by supergreg on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:40AM (#12143414)

> "hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare."

Isn't Cloudflare an American company? I wouldn't trust them to hide that information from the American government.

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Re:KickassTorrents resurfaces online by mtgx on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:42PM (#12144711)

And for some strange reason ThePirateBay uses it.

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Re:KickassTorrents resurfaces online by Zarel on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:29PM (#12145634)

I'd guess they use it as a DDoS protection layer, and have more proxies behind them.

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Re:KickassTorrents resurfaces online by jsprogrammer on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:28AM (#12144114)

Cloudflare also runs a MITM operation on TLS connections.

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Re:KickassTorrents resurfaces online by TheHippo on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:45AM (#12144226)

Not relevant for the this site because the didn't even turned on HTTPS.

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Re:KickassTorrents resurfaces online by ScroogeMcDoug on Friday July 22, 2016 @11:13PM (#12148171)

Seems to work well for carder forums.

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