Snowden on the Twitters

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 09:27:00 PDT 2015


Has anyone here looked into http://blog.bittorrent.com/tag/maelstrom/ ?
It would seem to offer some DDoS and other protections.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 08:13:09AM +0100, Oshwm wrote:
> > It is behind Cloudflare's MiTM service which adds web services names to
> their existing certs as alternative Names.
> >
> > So your SSL/TLS connection is terminated on Cloudflare's web application
> firewalls and NOT the web servers that you think is terminating it.
> >
>
>
> lol, did CA based PKI (d)evolved to buying an usable cert, but not
> having the private key?
>
> How do you survive large scale DDOS?
>
> AFAICT most service providers will ditch you, since you are hurting
> their other customers.
>
> More ontopic, Snowden has nearly meeelion twatter actor followers and
> some of them call him "traitor", not sure how he deals with the twatter
> spam.
>
> IIRC (from Snowden's dox) the dear NSA infiltrated some? CC of botnets,
> so they can use them for any kind of DDOS.
>
>
>
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