25 August 2013

Cloudflare Honeypot

A sends:

My efforts over the last year have concentrated on expanding our www.cloudflare-watch.org site. There is even the possibility that the entire CloudFlare operation is a honey pot:

http://www.cloudflare-watch.org/#honeypot

That information on my site was posted before Edward Snowden was in the news, and obviously it seems more relevant now than it did when I posted it. But many of CloudFlare's customers are teenage cybercriminals who don't comprehend the news, and many of the others are bloggers with cat pictures, or domain-name spammers. In other words, I don't think the Snowden revelations will affect CloudFlare much in the short run. But eventually, the sun might stop shining on cloud-based startups in the U.S. more generally.

http://www.darkreading.com/monitoring/us-surveillance-fallout-costing-third-pa/240160404

"In Europe, German and French authorities spoke out about trusting data to U.S. companies, while enterprises worldwide contacted their U.S.-based cloud providers for information about protections against unwanted government access. In fact, more than half of non-U.S. managers responding to a recent Cloud Security Alliance survey said that the revelations about the NSA's surveillance will make them less likely to use a U.S. cloud provider."