Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack

Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by kyledrake on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:05AM (#12562441)

I can confirm that this is true. "Hilarious" is not the word I would use to describe it, "potentially criminal" I think is closer to correct.

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by driverdan on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:52AM (#12564158)

> potentially criminal

Not even remotely. If the government steps in with a subpoena for the origin host IP or an injunction to stop protecting the site they'd stop. Someone on the internet asking them has no legal power to do so.

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by kyledrake on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:02PM (#12568293)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568256

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by Dylan16807 on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:09AM (#12562863)

They seem to think they have firm legal ground.

Keep in mind that most reverse proxies will do the same thing. The only difference with Cloudflare is that you don't know the destination IP.

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by fleitz on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:39AM (#12562556)

I'd call it business savvy.

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