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Thats basically for everything. Do you think home insurance will pay if you burn down house every year. Or car insurance if you trash it few times a year. I see DDOS protection as kind of insurance for event happening once in a while, if it happens all the time one definitely needs something more than a free service.


Yeah, but they aren't the ones, presumably, who are DDOSing their own site.

Warning: Insurance is not going to pay if YOU burn down your home /// even a little bit ///!!!


"Insurance companies hate this one weird trick."

That reminds me of an NPR piece [0] discussing how a worrying number of people seem to be getting wrong/illegal tax-advice from "influencers" on TikTok etc. I'm sure a similar thing with insurance fraud either has happened or will happen eventually.

[0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197958760




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