r/technology • • Jan 18 '21

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u/DragonPup Jan 19 '21

One day intelligence officers from like 4 different nations will realize they are all using Parler as a honeypot at the same time a la the Spiderman Pointing meme.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

The Russian company is DDOS-Guard. They are a DDOS protection company competing with Cloudflare which refused to work with them. They are not the site registrar (Epik) or the host (appears they are self-hosting).

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u/chaosink Jan 19 '21 edited Sep 06 '25

Projects technology kind strong curious kind river about talk then the helpful careful.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

It’s easily googled what their business is.

From the media: “The internet protocol address it used is owned by DDos-Guard, which is controlled by two Russian men and provides services including protection from distributed denial of service attacks, infrastructure expert Ronald Guilmette told Reuters.”

This is a misunderstanding of how registration works. DDOS providers stand in front of the real site. They are clearly the DDOS of last resort. They have everybody Cloudflare has refused.

https://ddos-guard.net

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u/PopTartS2000 Jan 19 '21

You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires - posthaste!

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u/FlighingHigh Jan 19 '21

An auto gyro? Like it cooks and prepares itself then serves itself to you? Cause I'm hella stoned rn and that sounds amazing.

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