The Wikipedia article says Cloudflare has been used to host hate speech, websites with illegal content and forums connected to all sorts of illegal activities. And I see them being used by a lot of decent webservices but shady ones as well.
So my question, can Cloudflare be used for something alike “bulletproof hosting”? Does anyone know if they collaborate with law enforcement or care once someone sends a mail to the abuse contact? Or if there’s a way to find information about a Cloudflare protected server for the public?
Hypothetical question, I’m just curious and I thought maybe someone here has first-hand experience with getting their account terminated or reporting content or doing piracy via them or whatever…
I have experience working in large data centers that provide hosting. What I can tell you is that various government agencies do and will randomly come by the data center with warrants and court orders for things. I’ve literally had NASA show up (wtf?) and have to pull a server offline while they mirror the hard disk. All very hush hush make excuses to the customer when they open a ticket. Another thing that happens is that the FBI has placed their servers within internal spaces of the network. When they get a court order they can open a ticket with our abuse department and whatever switch port the feds are interested in can be mirrored and sent to their packet capture servers.
I’ll add to this that I’m old - these days in a cloud environment they don’t even have to come to the data center to image the hard drive.
NASA or NSA?
They wanted their space back