Protonmail taken down by extremely powerful ddos attack

[hamiltino]

@janitor

By now SAFE DNS is not really DNS, NFS is not really NFS, and now there’s support for introducing email that not really email. If this continues soon it will be possible to write a SAFE Enterprise Solutions Guide with all these apps (NFS, DNS, structured data, email, etc.) not a single one of which works the way people would expect from the app titles. It’s as if instead of using terms that correctly describe the technology (ex: archived IM instead of email), you want to appear to Google Search Engine rather than to human readers.

I already said I am not against that, I just stated my own opinion.

And Safecoin is not really bitcoin

[upstate]

ProtonMail Pays Crooks $6,000 In Bitcoin To Cease DDoS Bombardment

[neo]

@whiteoutmashups

Really? Cool! How does that happen?

SAFE messaging uses resources, but apparently costing nothing. using it for spamming is controlled by the fact that outboxes are limited in # of unread/unclaimed messages. Simple messages are self contained and anything of significant size is stored in SD/chunks and appended using datamaps. The use of SD’s or chunks does cost the normal storage charges, but often attachments are already stored.

• SMTP (email) is text sent from a server to another server and stored in the receiver’s email address inbox.
• SAFE messages is text stored in ones outbox on the “global server” that the SAFE network is. And the message is stored in the sender’s outbox and the receiver receives it from there.

With email the sender and receiver use some sort of program to communicate with the email servers (telnet, email client, web app) and with SAFE an APP will also be required.

[Warren]

Anyone believe the crook story, or is it a gov or something trying to suppress something.