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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by rglullis on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:11AM (#37832356)
If Google Authenticator goes away, people will still be able to use 2FA (I for one use Aegis, it's available on F-droid and does everything I need, including encrypted backups)

If Lastpass goes away, people will still be able to use keepass or any of the large number of open source password managers, some of them even with browser integrations.

If I have a website that is frequently attacked by botnets and Cloudflare goes away, what can I use to replace it?

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by gchamonlive on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:20AM (#37832468)
I am sorry, but if your password manager goes away and you have no disaster recovery scenario planned you might not be able to just move to a competitor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31652650

My response was to illustrate how insidious big companies are.

Of course nothing compares to the backbone of the web going down. If AWS North Virginia suffers widespread downtime to all its availability zones, much of the web will just go dark, no question about it.

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