What is Cloudflare and why not to use Cloudflare!
Cloudflare, the operator of the probably best-known content delivery network, is not only very popular with black copiers. Credit card fraudsters, phishing site operators, blackmailers and terrorists also like to use the services of the Californian company. Volker Rieck takes a closer look.
In the USA, a large technology company is about to go public. Cloudflare from San Francisco wants to collect almost 3.5 billion dollars on the stock exchange in the first half of the year with the support of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. However, there are heavy shadows over Cloudflare. The spectrum of his customers ranges from credit card fraudsters and spammers to sites that operate copyright infringement as a business model and terrorist sites. Even US embargoes are undermined.
💡 What is Cloudflare?
The service of Cloudflare is the supply of a content Delivery network (CDN) - also content distribution network called. That is simplified said a type of turbo for web pages, so that these are delivered world-wide fast and surely. Cloudflare hangs itself thereby between the web page and/or the servers of its customers and the visitor of the side and/or user of a service and provides by purposeful control and distribution of the Traffics for a correspondingly high speed. In this way Cloudflare can offer also protection against overload attacks (DDoS) in the net.
💡 However, it offers a hidden feature:
the company anonymizes its customers.
By doing so, Cloudflare will put a screen over the original website or its server, making the operator of this site almost untraceable. If, for example, you want to know where a certain website is hosted, you only receive Cloudflare data, but you can neither identify the original computer center nor the IP address, which would be necessary, among other things, for prosecuting legal violations.
Civil law inquiries are useless, because Cloudflare only provides the naming of a computer center, which is worthless without the respective IP address. This would be roughly comparable to the information of an address in a high-rise building with thousands of residents, where there are no bell signs.
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