Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the listen-up dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous response to a comment arguing that Cloudflare isn’t very important to the internet:
I would like to hear your argument as to why DDoS mitigation is not an essential part of hosting a website in 2024.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the House looking to make KOSA and COPPA worse:
I get the impression that some people want social media to be their nanny, not unlike past generations that used the television as a nanny.
Some folks would like the internet to operate just like the broadcast media of yesteryear, it aint gonna happen.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment inspired by our mention of Chesterton’s Fence:
There’s a great scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan where Kirk and Spock tell the USS Reliants shields to go down by utilizing the “prefix code.” Now, horrifically bad security, even for the early 80s, aside, I love how Kirk tells Saavik “You’ve got to learn why things work on a Starship.”
It’s not Chesterton’s Fence, but it’s something that I struggle with getting people to do professionally all the time. You’ve got to understand why certain things are done. If you understand that, then you can make an informed decision when you need to modify or outright ignore something. I guess it’s a bit like the famous joke about cutting the ends off a pot roast.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about Congress moving to bring back unfettered patent trolling:
A bill that’s squarely made to facilitate patent trolling and another that’s squarely intended to make it harder to prevent patent trolling, both pushed by a politician who used to be a professional patent troll.
It’s so brazen it’s almost impressive.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous evaluation of a proposed legal definition in internet regulation bills:
COMPULSIVE USAGE.—The term ‘‘compulsive usage’’ means a persistent and repetitive use of a covered platform that substantially limits 1 or more major life activities (as described in section 3(2) of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12102(2))) of an individual, including eating, sleeping, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.
So. Romance is to be banned.
In second place, it’s yet another anonymous comment, this time in response to a comment intending to defend cops:
Oh! So you’re saying that the officer should be fired! I agree.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Whoever about ExTwitter going behind Cloudflare in Brazil:
This is simply Elon making sure that eXTwitter no longer needs the servers that he impetuously ripped out.
Finally, it’s Pixelation with a juvenile but irresistible joke regarding our headline about the troubles facing KOSA:
“But Cracks Are Showing”
This is exactly the thing they are trying to prevent children from seeing.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
No, Cloudflare's not important
Lots of networks, hosts and services offer various kinds of DoS protection. Cloudflare isn’t important or special (and their halfbaked TLS makes sites LESS secure) except for people who need bulletproof hosting, e.g. Kiwifarms, phishers, Nazis, malware distributors, and ironically enough, people who sell DoS services.
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One thing that gets me is that DDoS-as-a-service shouldn’t exist. Think about how easy it is to crawl websites and collect content. The FBI etc. have the resources to do it easily. Even if it’s behind TOR or something, customers have to be able to contact them to purchase services. So, locate those sites and set up a sting. Purchase a DDoS against your own site and log where the traffic comes from along with evidence it happened. Then go after the people who sold the attack, you have solid evidence they did it. Also take the addresses that sourced the attack and use that to put the screws to the ISPs who don’t do anything about customers with compromised equipment. Again, you have solid proof that the addresses in question participated in a DDoS attack. Taking down the selling domain takes that storefront offline, taking down the people behind it takes all of their storefronts offline and keeps them there.
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I feel confident that this process is already being done.
It just takes time, requires cooperation of multiple groups, some of who professionally do not cooperate well with others.
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another troll
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your never going to get the insightful award
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Actually websites should be free to host content without fear of retribution by DDoSers. And yes, Anonymous Coward, that also includes websites that host content you might personally find objectionable.
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Not actually what AC was arguing, but you knew that.
If it weren’t for Whoever and Pixelation, anonymous would be legion, but…🤷♀️
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Hey, i’m legion, but i am also a coward.
Let them
Let ATT have their Fun, AFTER they install Fiber to the homes.
I really wonder about Congress and the internet. The internet has been around long enough for them to learn things. But they still act like idiots.(Duh)
There are only a few reasons to hide behind ignorance. Paid off OR as mentioned, they are the Scammers FROM the internet trying to get Bills past to make things harder.
Re: Ok, its figured out
we no longer have a Congress to represent the people. They Took the jobs, to represent the Corps. Literally, that is ALL they care about.
The real problem is SHOWING it and proving Bribery of any sort. OR the exchange of services, LIKE a Better job when they Leave congress.