Yes - makes me think of the assassination of Shinzo Abe.
The gunman made his own gun, in a country with ultra-strict gun laws. The Unabomber made his own bombs. The Seattle mall Islamist knife attacker refused to stay down after being shot multiple times.
My takeaway: political terrorists are particularly motivated. Secondly, gun laws slow them down but don't stop them.
Are attacks like this—ransomware—always aimed at Windows-based systems? Is that the common denominator?
I've noticed that most Internet attacks are Windows-based but somehow "Microsoft" or "Windows" never makes it into the news copy. I've wondered if MS has a massive marketing/legal outreach to make sure that doesn't happen. And to make it sound like "this can happen anywhere", and "no computer is 100% attack-proof".
I'm planning my transition away for 10 or so subdomains and 30 records.
The only feature I need to research in new providers is: access to Whois ASN numbers, which I insert into HTTP request headers. I use this to tailor my site for .gov and .edu users.
That's the inference, but AFAIK there's been no direct assertion or explanation: Why has CF been knocked back to Alpha-status reliability across the board.
Yes — Workaround is to disable your workers. That got my site back up and running.
EDIT 15:07 MDT: People are reporting that Workers are back up. Mine isn't in my site's critical path. So I'm going to leave the Worker disabled (un-routed) until tonight.
> When I write bad code I know because I run it, test it, and if needed, fix it.
This puts you ahead of 80% of coders in 2022. That's who's going to have trouble: the people churning out software that sucks and the companies that enable them. These companies have gotten by until now because most other companies' software sucks too.
I've seen an aspect of this firsthand, working in crypto. There are now generations of college graduates with degrees / concrentrations in "blockchain" in one way or another. They nominally have computer science or software engineering degrees, but readily admit that they are bad programmers and don't like programming.
So we have a growing cohort of people who are emotionally all-in on blockchain. They've planned and built their careers and reputations around it.
I think I found an actual legitimate, real use of crypto, albeit a small one: A way for an adult to give a gift to a minor. Here in the US it used to be possible to buy "savings bonds" printed on paper. These were very common for gift giving on special life occasions: they matured (were usable) after e.g. 7 years.
But now in the modern era, I couldn't find those or a way to create a long-term savings account for a minor.
But I was able to create a crypto wallet with a small portfolio of Bitcoin and Eth. It was easy to give to her and her family: just tell them the secret 12 words and explain how to install a crypto wallet.