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PeterStuertoday at 5:53 AM1 replyview on HN

They were DDOS protection first, then expanded into edge caches and reverse proxies. Back then, they did not offer paid services to DDOSers to bypass their protection, or if they did, they were at least discrete about it.


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ebcodetoday at 5:49 PM

Actually they were a honeypot first, or so I'm told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhZ2vOjF5s