Nice work Ron

Thu Jan 21 18:26:22 UTC 2021

DDOS-Guard is only hosting a temporary static page for Parler, they are not
hosting the full Parler application. (Source : Quote from Parler's CEO,
NYT, 1/19/21,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/technology/parler-russian-company.html)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:55 PM Matt Erculiani <merculiani at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'll add that after reading the article, it doesn't appear that Parler was
> specifically targeted, just DDoS-Guard prior to becoming their new host.
> Deplatforming of Parler wasn't really on anyone's radar back in November
> when the complaint with LACNIC was filed and I'm not under the impression
> they had lined DDoS-Guard up as a backup host at this point, or their
> downtime would have been much less after Amazon gave them the boot; still,
> they almost certainly would have been very tight lipped about who that
> provider would be.
>
> It just seemed like a convenient coincidence that Parler has since become
> a customer and will be inconvenienced by this, the extent to which is not
> likely to be very high as they've probably re-written any modules of their
> backend that weren't portable, and now have some experience with finding
> and deploying on a new host.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:39 AM Jean St-Laurent via NANOG <
> nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
>
>> I should have probably add more content or a comment.
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>> I feel this is a good example that a pen is mightier than a sword.
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>> I am impress by what I read in this article and would definitely like to
>> hear/read more, maybe coming from Ronald Guilmette?
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>> Thanks all
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>> Jean
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>> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+jean=ddostest.me at nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *Jean
>> St-Laurent via NANOG
>> *Sent:* January 21, 2021 12:17 PM
>> *To:* 'NANOG' <nanog at nanog.org>
>> *Subject:* Nice work Ron
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>> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/
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>> [image: Image removed by sender. ddosTest me Security inc]
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>> Jean St-Laurent
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>> CISSP #634103
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>> ddosTest me security inc
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>> tel:  438 806-9800 <+14388069800>
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>> site:  https://ddostest.me
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>> email:  jean at ddostest.me
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> Matt Erculiani
> ERCUL-ARIN
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