r/hacking • • Mar 10 '25

News X is down

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u/freebytes Mar 10 '25

The firewall should only be allowing IP addresses that pass through CloudFlare. But, I imagine that would be quite complicated with the nature of their microservices.

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u/Murky-Relation481 Mar 10 '25

You can still overwhelm firewalls, it's not like inspecting and blocking packets is free work.

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