ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens When You Mock Attackers

Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by rablo on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:09PM (#17419173)

If there’s something I’ve learnt of irc is that you don’t taunt those who can bring your connection down. Maybe this will teach these kids from ProtonMail a lesson.

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Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by z_open on Thursday June 28, 2018 @03:02PM (#17419567)

> kids

Yeah, all those CERN researcher kids at ProtonMail.

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Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by ryanlol on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:03PM (#17420861)

One of the PIA co-founders made a pretty convincing case that protonmail is probably not ran by a bunch of CERN researchers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17258203

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Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by protonmail on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:37PM (#17421580)

This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published:

ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s...

ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist): http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb...

TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat...

So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.

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Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by sm64 on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:31PM (#17421556)

The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.

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Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by protonmail on Thursday June 28, 2018 @08:42PM (#17421601)

This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).

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Re:ProtonMail DDoS Attacks Are a Case Study of What Happens ... by foobarbazetc on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:59PM (#17419535)

Lol, he called them clowns once. Must’ve really hurt their feelings...

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