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ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks
An anonymous reader writes: After several days of intense work, Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has largely mitigated the DDoS attacks that made it unavailable for hours on end in the last week. The attacks exceeded 100Gbps, and are still going on, but they are no longer capable of knocking ProtonMail offline for extended periods of time. The ProtonMail community of users proved to be invaluable for the company. In fact, in just a few days, they donated over $50,000 to the company's "defense fund," providing the resources to resist further attacks against email privacy.
and im not afraid to use it
State actors or malicious mischief? That is the real question.
ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks
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ProtonMail Restores Services After DDoS Attacks of Epic Proportions Deflates Into Flacid Dysfunction
Frivolous use of superlatives. Slashdot is getting more and more "amazeballs" Time to move on to a more mature source of information.
They're asking for an email account so that they can send you an invite. How is this remotely anonymous?
Being in .ch is nice and all, and gives you that "Swiss Bank Account" feel, but the XKCD coming about encryption & pipewrenches comes to mind. Since the Banks have rolled (because Nazis) what is going to keep your free email secure when the Polizei comes knocking?
woke up this morning with a bad hangover and my penis was missing again. This happens all the time; it's detachable. This comes in handy a lot of the time; I can leave it home when it think it's gonna get me in trouble, or I can rent it out when I don't need it. But now and then I go to a party, get drunk, and the next morning, I can't, for the life of me, remember what I did with it. First I looked around my apartment, and I couldn't find it , so I called up the place where the party was, they hadn't seen it either. I asked them to check the medicine cabinet, 'cause for some reason, I leave it there sometimes, but not this time. So I told them if it pops up to let me know. I called a few people who were at the party, but they were no help either.
I was starting to get desperate I really don't like being without my penis for too long, It makes me feel like less of a man, and I really hate having to sit down every time I take a leak.
After a few hours of searching the house, and calling everyone I could think of, I was starting to get very depressed, so I went to the Kiev and ate breakfast. Then as I walked down Second Avenue, toward's St. Mark's Place, where all those people sell used books and other junk on the street, I saw my penis lying on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven-some guy was selling it! I had to buy it off him. He wanted 22 bucks, but I talked him down to 17. I took it home, washed it off, and put it back on. I was happy again: complete. People sometimes tell me I should get it permanently attached, but I don't know. Even though sometimes it's a pain in the ass, I like having a detachable penis.
or how many?
The article says:
in just a few days, they donated over $50,000
I would just complain to my ISP, over the phone obviously, and demand a compensatory cut in monthly bill... not give them *more* money.
Much more info on this official blog post: https://protonmail.com/blog/pr...
Donating money to a fight a DDOS is as good as flushing it down the toilet. The attackers will just keep the attack up, until the money dries up. $50k doesn't last long against 100Gbps, and you're just inviting the assholes to increase their botnet capacity.
ProtonMail are bad guys too, because they paid the ransom. It made them complicit in the criminal incident.
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Can I grind the genitals off of the next writer who uses the word Epic in a headline? Same with marketing droids who use the word stunning, I'd like to stun those assholes with a cattle prod in the genitals.
This crap is child's play compared to the packets that IRC networks receive on a regular basis. Whiny assholes.
Proton mail claims to have self destructing emails. They liken it to SnapChat, claiming that the sender can set an expiration date on the email and it will be deleted from the recipient's mailbox. They also say that this feature works with recipients external to the Proton system.
I was unable to find anything about how exactly this "ephemeral" message actually works. I presume that it uses some sort of key expiration, but the claim of it being deleted form the mailbox doesn't fit that method. Does anyone, preferably someone that has used it or can provide a link to documentation, know how exactly the Proton self destructing email system works?
Are you a frat boy from 2005? There are literally 0 things that are deserving of the hyperbolic expression "epic" that are not Literary Masterworks, or perhaps the Himalayan mountains. Maybe the Atlantic Ocean...Anyway, just stop it with that word for the love of Pete, I've had to endure it for years and just when I thought it was over the Media took it and FUCKING RAN. Relying on internet memetics doesn't make you look cool, it makes you seem lazy.
There are plate tectonic forces at work... if you're doing something controversial, you gotta have a metric shitload of stones and capability!
And these guys weren't in a low-traffic-isp...