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Benderyesterday at 7:29 PM5 repliesview on HN

There must be some really good protection on this. If I enabled such a thing on any of my servers it would be full of warez, porn, malware, CSAM and who knows what else within minutes. Curious how they manage to keep it clean.


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inigyoutoday at 1:17 AM

The protection is that they're rich enough to handle requests from law enforcement without going to jail themselves. They'll certainly pass your IP address to law enforcement if asked.

mattlondonyesterday at 8:28 PM

Only live for an hour.

But that won't stop people doing bad stuff for an hour I guess. Vibe code up some on-demand thing that you ping...

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hopppyesterday at 10:33 PM

They already allow hosting static websites so I think the same guardrails are implemented.

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busymom0today at 1:36 AM

At least when it comes to bad types of porn, it's be similar to Imgur allowing anonymous uploads. They already do CSAM scanning on uploads to their R2 storage:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-simpler-path-to-a-safer-intern...

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DakotaRyesterday at 8:21 PM

Yeah, I was going to start a file drop site like 0x until realizing what it'd be used for