cyberattack.Late last week, social-networking app Parler put its website back online, after Amazon stopped hosting the app over itsOnlookers noticed Parler had acquired the services of a company called DDoS-Guard. Heads turned when the news emerged that DDoS-Guard was Russian.
Not that the Russian provider should have access to much Parler data, as it essentially acts as a kind of bouncer for customers. When a wave of traffic hits a customer site, as per a typical distributed denial of service attack, the Russian firm sends the traffic to a number of servers so the main website server isn’t overloaded. DDoS-Guard then has to determine what’s legitimate traffic and what isn’t, allowing only legitimate connections. It’s a process known as “scrubbing.
What’s worrying about DDoS-Guard helping Parler out? It’s largely down to politics and ethics. If one considers Parler to be a danger, a place where the more extreme members of the far right are allowed to incite violence, then DDoS-Guard could be seen as its bodyguard, stopping people who want to take it down by force and therefore an enabler. That it’s Russian will gall those who fear that the Kremlin and businesses under its influence are working to foment discord in the U.S.
How ironic.
Same DDOS service that protected another far-right on line meeting place, 8kun, until recently.
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MAGA people are going to have to consider whether they have been dupes for a foreign power, to disrupt our government, using Donald Trump as the bait.
Yes they’re doing a Good Job 👏