After this I think it is clear that Cloudflare is an unpredictable business risk.
> When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly "purged" all our domains, causing huge downtime in our core business, sleepless nights migrating away from CF, irreparable loss in customer trust and weeks of ongoing downtime in our internal systems.
I haven't posted this on my site yet, but there have been a few developments likely related to the seizure of #BreachForums. As a preview, recall that Kantonspolizei Zürich were one of the cooperating entities in the takedown and that the seizure notice had two avatars behind bars: one was Baphomet, the other was a default avatar that has been used by a number of people, but is not the avatar of the forum owner ShinyHunters.
Law enforcement has yet to issue any press release or answer any questions about the takedown.
Developments:
#ShinyHunters was notified by #CloudFlare that they had received a court order ordering CF to cancel BF's account. CF complied with the court order. (Source: ShinyHunters shared text copy of CF communication with DataBreaches)
CF did not tell ShinyHunters what court had ordered that, so Shiny asked them to provide a copy of the order if there was no gag order with it, or to at least say what court ordered it so it could be appealed. They have not gotten a response from CF as yet to that request.
On May 15, the same day as the takedown, Switzerland Services sent customers a notice stating, in part, that "all our network equipment and servers in Switzerland were confiscated yesterday by Swiss police due to a local prosecutor order and therefore all services in Switzerland are currently unavailable and all data can de considered as lost and compromised."
ShinyHunters had previously told DataBreaches that BF has used servers and services in Switzerland.
ShinyHunters has also claimed to be in Switzerland. DataBreaches does not know if that is true or not.
I'll have this up on databreaches.net soon with the full message from Switzerland Services.
We need to stigmatize centralized people farms like #LemmyWorld, #ShitJustWorks, #Lemmee, etc just like #AOL users were in the 90s. Make it clear that these accidental #Cloudflare supporters are made aware that they lack a nuanced understanding of the #fedi#decentralization concept. If it’s as successful as the AOL stigma was, we can get more people to join the free world.
I do recall lists of nodes that indicate cloudflare. If I were looking for a node, I would look on the #greenFediverse list. There are 2 of those lists. One of them flags Cloudflare sites because CF is also bad for environment. So that gives an idea. @madeindex