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Re:Project Shield by nl on Monday September 26, 2016 @07:12PM (#12586410)
Yeah, that's pretty simplistic. There's no evidence at all that somehow removing DDOS protection for the payment part of blackmailers web presence will somehow make them go away.

Sure, chase down how they do payment. But ultimately a web front end isn't the thing that makes the payment happen.

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Re:Project Shield by kyledrake on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:56PM (#12591039)
> But ultimately a web front end isn't the thing that makes the payment happen.

The "brochure" argument makes 100% sense to me for something like the distributed web, but not for a dynamic web application. Brochures just sit there and look at you. Brochures don't take payments and process callbacks, and send commands to attack.

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