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A comment on Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach. Parent comment

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by blibble on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:30PM (#32665569)
> And let's be real. DDoS attacks are acts of digital terrorism. They're attacking infrastructure due to political motives.

in my experience most of the time it's due to:

  - boredom ("gotta nuke something")
  - revenge for being banned/fragged/...
  - extortion ("ban this person I don't like, or else")
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Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach by Ticklee on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @02:13PM (#32666138)
Another big reason is to inhibit the competition, this is often seen in video game servers DDoS attacking each other in order to get people to switch
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