On: Russian government threatens to block CloudFlare

[weirdcat]

I don't follow. I use CloudFlare to make my sites respond faster and be protected from DOS attacks. Hiding the place where my files are stored is not why CloudFlare exists -- at least I thought so.

Of course one might argue that revealing the origin IP exposes it to DOS attacks, but this is a different issue.

[krapp → weirdcat]

That's basically what I was arguing - giving access to the origin IP undermines its value as a service.