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fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoYou don’t get hacking protection from bots, you get protection from DDoS attacks. Yeah some customers would have gone down, instead everyone went down… I said that instead of crashing the system they should have something that takes an intentional decision and informs properly about what’s happening. That decision might have been to clo
You can keep the policy and inform everyone much better about what’s happening. Half a day is a wild amount of downtime if it were properly managed.
Yes, bot detection is not the most critical…
So you agree that if this were controlled instead of open crahsing everything them being able to make an informed decision and opening or closing things, with the suggestion of opening in the case of not detection is the correct approach. What’s the point of your complaint if you do agree? C’mon.
groet@feddit.org 1 week ago
I disagree. I don’t know the details of cloudflares bot detecion, but there are many automated vulnerability scanners that this could protect against.
I agree. Every crash is a failure by the designers. Instead it should be caught by the program and result in a useful error state. They probably have something like that but it didn’t work because the crash was to severe.
I am not complaining. I am informing you that you are missing an angle in your consideration. You can never prevent every crash ever. So when designing your product you have to consider what should happen if every safeguard fails and you get an uncontrolled crash. In that case you have to design for “fail open” or “fail closed”. Cloudflare fucked up. The crash should not have happened and if it did it should have been caught. They didn’t. They fucked up. But, i agree with the result of the fuck up causing a fail closed state.