Lessons From 5 Years of Free Cybersecurity For At-Risk Groups (axios.com) 41
Cloudflare's Project Galileo, which offers free high-tier DDoS protection service to journalists, dissidents, civil liberties groups and other at-risk groups, turned 5 years old this week. From a report: The project currently serves over 600 accounts. An LGBT protection group in the Middle East, for example, does important work on a shoestring budget and cannot possibly afford to block the outsized number of attacks it could face from governments and even citizens. Project Galileo isn't the only commercial cybersecurity service offered to at-risk groups, but it is one of the first and the most successful. "Project Galileo originally started from a failure to live up to what was originally our mission to make a better internet," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told Codebook. Further reading: Cloudflare's Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online (Wired).
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An LGBT protection group in the Middle East, for example, does important work
What is this work and why exactly is it important? Because the writer is virtue-signaling or because there is objective/empirical reason to come to that conclusion? An alternative view is that "transgendered" people are mentally ill and thus deserving of compassion (not condemnation) as they receive treatment for their mental illness and identity crisis. Supporting a mental illness by validating it and shaming others who disagree will not resolve the illness. There are not 70+ genders.
None of this requi
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"What is this work and why exactly is it important? ... An alternative view is that "transgendered" people are mentally ill ... "
That sounds like the same nonsense that was said about gays or feminists.
All three are doing good work.
Politics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] [Gender identity] ?
Block it, period (Score:3)
sigh.
Shouldn't be that hard either... (Score:1)
Your site sends message to its gateway that it is being flooded, and a list of ip adddresses. The gateway notifies the upstream gateways for the traffic and the downstream IP address. Said gateways either block the traffic, or get filtered for that destination IP address. Keep doing this recursively and you get back to the last behaving hop before the misbehaving client IPs.
If we did this to all gateways all over the internet we could stop DoSes dead in their tracks, and reduced certain kinds of DDoSes base
Quit being a 'flake (Score:2, Informative)
Yes, LGBT people are at risk. They are attacked more than "white people", and most particularly, note that this is not an America-only protection, but includes other countries, some of which are ones where simply admitting you're homosexual gets you the death penalty.
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/09/brunei-stoning-gay-sex-anti-lgbt-law/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/0
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LOL. You are a moron. Do you know any straight male who could be "groomed" to be homosexual? The idea of even touching a man is disgusting to a straight man. There is no way to "force" someone to be homosexual.
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Who protects us from the campus mob? (Score:1)
https://www.commentarymagazine... [commentarymagazine.com]
AC Trolls In the House! (Score:2)
36 of 41 posts so far made by ACs. What are you all so afraid of, you chickenshit turds?
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36 of 41 posts so far made by ACs. What are you all so afraid of, you chickenshit turds?
So you'll be telling us your real legal name and your home address and telephone number, then?
Because I can create new pseudonyms using disposable e-mail addresses* all day. Over my VPN. This is proof of neither bravery nor cowardice. But since this seems to be a fixation for you, here's your chance (I highly recommend you back down and don't do it - in fact do like most hypocrites and go silent, pretending you never read this message).
* Sure, Slashdot tries to reject disposable e-mail addresses at accou