EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

Wed Jul 27 15:09:51 UTC 2016

I am sure a lawyer would see it very differently, I could see someone looking at this like racketeering. They get paid to provide a service to defend against DDoS, well knowingly hosting people who conduct DDoS attacks. Cloudflare profits from both the victims and the criminals. If Cloudflare isn't acting in good faith to shut down these sites when they receive evidence they are bad actors, they could find themselves in a bit of trouble. 

At this point Cloudflare would know that these bad actors are hosted on their service since we know many Cloudflare employees subscribe to the NANOG list, and the list of bad actors would now show up in their email server, ready for legal discovery.

Disclaimer: I have a ton of respect for Clouldflare and what they do on the internet. 

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Randy Bush
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:56 AM
To: Paras Jha <paras at protrafsolutions.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

> I suppose it's inevitable, given that both are known for having 
> non-existent abuse departments.

as the OP made pretty clear, it's not a matter of an abuse contact.
it is the service not acting as a law enforcement agency and asking for a court order.  most large service providers operate in that way.

randy