Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@eb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eb</span></a></span> :</p><p>It's <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/InternetCancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetCancer</span></a> .</p><p>Cloudflare, with a couple of other Big Techs (including Google), increasingly profit from cybercrime. They have turned into criminal organizations themselves. Short sighted, because they're destroying the internet.</p><p>From <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-ter</span><span class="invisible">minated-daily-stormer</span></a>:<br><<< There are a number of different organizations that work in concert to bring you the Internet. They include:<br>[...]<br>Any of the above could regulate content online. The question is: which of them should? >>></p><p>EACH of them says it's NOT THEM who should.</p><p>But EACH of them SHOULD if they are complicit to cybercrime.</p><p>ALL of them, either directly or indirectly, earn an increasing part of their income by, at the very least condoning, the robbing of innocent individuals. But also of companies, NGO's and govermental organizations.</p><p>THEY HAVE BECOME CRIMINALS THEMSELVES.</p><p>If they'd claim "Wir haben es nicht gewußt" (that a customer is a criminal) then it is the RESPONSIBILITY of each of them in the chain to find out.</p><p>It's fixed by performing thorough authentication (decently verified and proven identities) from the start to the end.</p><p>Anonymous web presences (in particular related to making money), without ANYONE FEELING RESPONSIBLE - and eventually nobody BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE, will wreak havoc.</p><p>WHOIS it, is where it all starts:<br>————<br>Registrant Contact Information:<br>Name<br>REDACTED FOR PRIVACY<br>Organization<br>REDACTED FOR PRIVACY<br>Address<br>REDACTED FOR PRIVACY<br>Address<br>REDACTED FOR PRIVACY<br>City<br>REDACTED FOR PRIVACY<br>————</p><p>Big Tech facilitates cybercriminals using suggestive pseudonyms (aka domain names) like can be seen here: <a href="https://crt.sh/?q=payments-2-myrogers-acc.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crt.sh/?q=payments-2-myrogers-</span><span class="invisible">acc.net</span></a><br>Note the BS: " Domain Validation SECURE SERVER" and "Google TRUST Services".</p><p>It should have been: Let's AUTHENTICATE (see also <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStraten/112882437562055760" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat</span><span class="invisible">en/112882437562055760</span></a>).</p><p>Also from <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-ter</span><span class="invisible">minated-daily-stormer</span></a> (written in 2017):<br><<< For context, Cloudflare currently handles around 10% of Internet requests. >>></p><p>Cloudflare has become the biggest ever bullet-proof hoster (see <a href="https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/188.114.96.0/relations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/</span><span class="invisible">188.114.96.0/relations</span></a> and tap ••• a couple of times).</p><p>OTOH, the FISA section 702 guys still love them.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dangoodin</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DontBeEvil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontBeEvil</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LackOfAuthentication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LackOfAuthentication</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ShortSightedness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortSightedness</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybercrime</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BulletProofHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletProofHosting</span></a> <br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AllowingAnonymousBusinesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AllowingAnonymousBusinesses</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Fastly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fastly</span></a></p>