Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
Summary
This article analyzes Canonical's outage and the role of Cloudflare in providing protection, arguing that a paid Cloudflare relationship enabled continued service during a targeted attack. It traces public records (RIPE, Companies House, certificate logs) to build a narrative of how the incident unfolded and why the author views it as a potentially problematic vendor dynamic. The piece concludes that the event exposes risks in how critical infrastructure relies on third-party DDOS protection and CDN services.