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Re:UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2B to providers fo... by Aerbil313 on Friday March 22, 2024 @06:53AM (#39789366)
> provide protection to DDoS providers that would otherwise have taken each other down

Given many DDOSs are originated by botnets, is this possible?

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Re:UnitedHealth Group has paid more than $2B to providers fo... by throwup238 on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:51AM (#39791890)
DDoS providers have websites marketing their services which Cloudflare allows (for free!) in the name of not policing speech. Before Cloudflare, they didn't exist because competitors would always take each other down. Anyone who wanted to hire them had to go trawling the darkweb/freenet/random hacker forums.
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