[Shank]

It is academically very interesting to think about this in light of their long-standing dispute with Cloudflare (https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...) over EDNS, which could have privacy implications attached.

I think no matter how you slice it though, it's unethical and reprehensible to coordinate (even a shoddy) DDoS leveraging your visitors as middlemen. This is effectively coordinating a botnet, and we shouldn't condone this behavior as a community.

[qmarchi]

It's definitely interesting to see this roll around since the only individuals that see the CAPCHA page mentioned, are users of Cloudflare's DNS services (knowingly or not).

P.S. Shout-out to dang for dropping the flags. I have a small suspicion that their may be some foul play, given the contents...

[greyface-]

> the only individuals that see the CAPCHA page mentioned, are users of Cloudflare's DNS services

I don't think this is true. I run my own recursive DNS resolver, and get a CAPTCHA when visiting archive.today.

[mhitza]

I see the captcha all the time for the Tor onion website as well.