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Google has launched a free service to protect news websites against DDoS attacks. Project Shield will also be offered to human rights and election monitoring websites as a way of fending off increasingly commonplace site-swamping DDoS assaults. Google is offering to "reverse proxy" qualifying websites' traffic through Google's …

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  1. CrazyCanuck

    I guess Steven Gibson could use this because he had another DDOS attack around Valentines day. He talks about it on Security Now. https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-547.pdf

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  2. RyokuMas
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    "Google has promised not to use log info in order to serve advertising"

    About as believable as anything that come out of David Cameron's mouth.

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    1. g e
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      Ohhhhhhhh?

      That's his MOUTH???

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  3. Skoorb

    So, El Reg and the Grauniad are going to be signing up for this then?

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