Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by thinkmassive on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:26PM
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I think you misinterpreted what matt4077 said. Most "hacking attempts and similar" are illegal. Tor is often (nobody said always) used in attacks, so the IPs of most exit nodes show up during attacks, which requires future users coming from those same exit nodes to solve the captcha. Cloudflare makes these decisions based on data, not on interpreting the law.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti...
by JumpCrisscross on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:37PM
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> Cloudflare makes these decisions based on data, not on interpreting the law
As they are entitled to do. Uber saw damaging activity coming from burner phones. They blocked and/or modified the related services.
If the investigators had identified themselves to Uber and then Uber did this, that might be different (though law enforcement is not, for good reasons, a protected class). The investigators chose a quieter path and Uber reacted accordingly.