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Re:Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing by askmike on Thursday October 04, 2018 @11:48PM (#18145603)
> especially if first complaint

Well:

> It was sent by PhishLabs to DigitalOcean, and DigitalOcean forwarded it to me.

I don't think this is the first complaint from PhishLabs to DigitalOcean. I do think DO would have "investigated" up to the level where they'd click the link and see "yep, that's a google sign in form". It's not up to DO to dispute claims made by people who send them abuse e-mails. As for the dispute itself, we all seem to think the IPFS was not hosting the content. But I'm not sure if that holds up in a legal case (the PirateBay is also not hosting any illegal content).

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Re:Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing by jstanley on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:18AM (#18146975)
IPFS isn't even linking to illegal content.

IPFS has no knowledge of the illegal content whatsoever, it all comes from the URL fragment and Microsoft Azure.

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Re:Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing by sitepodmatt on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:21AM (#18146987)
By the same merit, any site (big, small, government or otherwise) with an XSS like el.outerHTML = window.location.search or el.outerHTML = window.location.query is vunerable to be shutdown if hosted on DO. Makes one think..
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