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Dirlewanger on March 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: February 28th DDoS Incident Report

Better than a private company playing gatekeeper for a massive amount of websites.

WJW on March 1, 2018 [–]

Please define better. If (say) an IPFS item is cached by 3-5 nodes each of which is on a private home internet connection it is trivial to DDOS each of those and thus effectively censor the content. On the other hand, it is decidedly nontrivial to DDOS Cloudflare.

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