Re: [security-discuss] gnuradio project DoS attacks GNU wget users

[Anonymous]

Jean Louis said:

> It is hard for me to understand why those project managers use
> Cloudflare or captchas, is the money the problem, what is the
> problem there?

It's hard to even find out, because the gnuradio project managers are
so hostile on the matter they won't even answer the question.  See the
first 2 paragraphs of this:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2017-01/msg00079.html

> Are there so many users downloading the software, that the project
> managers lack the money for hosting? Isn't hosting today pretty cheap?

If I understand pg 7 of this FSF annual report correctly:

  
https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-releases-fy2015-annual-report

GNU Radio brings in around /yr if I'm eye-balling the pie chart
well.  I'm not sure if there are donations apart from what filters
through FSF.

But certainly if they're going to centralize, it'd be more sensible to
centralize on some FSF server and not in the corporate walled-garden
of CloudFlare.

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