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A Technical Guide to Burning Down a Troll Farm

https://twitter.com/keffals, a popular Twitch streamer, answered her door on August 5 to Ontario police pointing guns in her face. Soon, Sorrenti became a victim of a month-long, cross-continental campaign of doxxing (publicly releasing personal information about an individual) and swatting.

Kiwi Farms, Fong-Jones said, deliberately picked a host that was friendly to them — sometimes dubbedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_contract, notorious for hosting spammers but also hate groups that more mainstream hosts reject.

Cloudflare, Kiwi Farms’ content delivery network (CDN) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation layer, became the obvious target.

Less than three days later,https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/was pivoting to block Kiwi Farms’ content from being accessed through the Cloudflare infrastructure.