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Welcome to 2025 (content.federation.network)
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Welcome to 2025
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's the reason I set up cloudflare in the first place, so yeah. I was getting SYN flood-ed to the point that my router would just crash almost immediately, and after rebooting it the attack would resume after a minute or two.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    @DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml @memes@lemmy.world Hm weird, I don't see why they would spend their resources attacking random people without any kind of demand. Even at work I've never seen one happening.
    I still believe Cloudflare has most of its customers because of fearmongering tbh.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's a bit like saying "having a password on your account is fearmongering, why would anyone try to access your data".

    It's only fearmongering until you get attacked, and it's already too late when you do. Better to be proactive.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @Alaknar@sopuli.xyz @memes@lemmy.world Being proactive doesn't mean you have to hide your personal service behind a billion dollar company. That is precisely the kind of overreaction triggered by fearmongering. If you don't know how to secure access points or harden configurations, no service will be able to do it for you as if by magic. Not to mention your responsibility towards your users, who may not want to be tracked by a third-party company without their knowledge every time they visit your site (or half of the internet by now).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If you don’t know how to secure access points or harden configurations, no service will be able to do it for you as if by magic

    That's the point. Cloudflare does this as if by magic.

    Not to mention your responsibility towards your users, who may not want to be tracked by a third-party company

    Cloudflare doesn't track your users.

    As a sidenote - am I reading you correctly? Your main issue with Cloudflare is "they're large"? Like, if they were "two dudes in a basement" and provided the same quality product as they do now, you'd be happy to use their service?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Get a router that has flood protection? This is like.. Extremely basic network protection.

    OpenWRT has had configurable syn-flood protection (enabled by default) since like 2010.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Even if the SYN packets were being ignored, the connection would still be unusable if there's enough incoming traffic for most legitimate packets to get dropped. And as mentioned in other comments, the router in question is a shitty ISP router which can't be replaced (although I do have a much fancier router with OpenWRT running behind that).

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