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Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by dewey on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @01:38PM (#18504896)
The same reason people host their emails, websites, photos somewhere else or host their infrastructure in the cloud instead of colocating. It’s not hard but just another thing you have to care for when your real focus should be on what you provide not how you provide it.
Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by taurath on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:05PM (#18505593)
If secrecy/anonymity is important enough to put something on the dark web, using the same assumptions as you might on the public internet is silly.
Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by ben_w on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:34PM (#18505837)
People are silly. We look for silver bullets all the time. Political figureheads who look and sound good while lacking any depth, moustache-twirling villains to blame the bad times on, silly rituals which start because they accidentally coincided with good times, investment bubbles, and hubris followed by victim blaming.

There’s nothing which would cause an otherwise competent business leader to even realise they don’t understand the limits of any given security system, never mind knowing who to ask for advice.

Re:Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down by jekrb on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @07:04PM (#18507035)
I mean you should have some focus on how you provide your service. By all means, take advantage of services that make your life easier, but you should at least know how they work on a high level should they ever go down and you need to take more ownership of what you provide.