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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by sp0rk on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:19AM (#12563489)
>They enable the booter's free speech; they aren't enabling their actual attacks.

The attacks are paid for and managed by the customers through the web portals that run behind CloudFlare. How is that not enabling the attacks?

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by jessaustin on Friday September 23, 2016 @09:09AM (#12564269)
One could imagine management and payment via phone calls or snail mail. The actual attacks couldn't happen like that.
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