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folkzone:networking:deflect [2026/09/23 14:52] – created - external edit 127.0.0.1folkzone:networking:deflect [2026/10/23 15:46] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-====== Deflect — DDoS Protection for Civil Society ======+====== Deflect: DDoS Protection for Civil Society ======
  
-[[https://deflect.ca/|deflect.ca]] — a project of [[https://equalitie.org/|eQualitie]], a Canadian social enterprise based in Montréal.+[[https://deflect.ca/|deflect.ca]]: a project of [[https://equalitie.org/|eQualitie]], a Canadian social enterprise based in Montréal.
  
 ===== What It Is ===== ===== What It Is =====
  
-DDoS mitigation and CDN for civil society organizations, independent media, and human rights defenders. Founded in 2011 by Dmitri Vitaliev and David Mason — predating both Google's Project Shield and Cloudflare's Project Galileo.+DDoS mitigation and CDN for civil society organizations, independent media, and human rights defenders. Founded in 2011 by Dmitri Vitaliev and David Mason: predating both Google's Project Shield and Cloudflare's Project Galileo.
  
 Origin: built in direct response to a [[https://cyber.harvard.edu/|Berkman Center report]] documenting how DDoS attacks had become a standard tool of political repression against independent media and human rights groups. Origin: built in direct response to a [[https://cyber.harvard.edu/|Berkman Center report]] documenting how DDoS attacks had become a standard tool of political repression against independent media and human rights groups.
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 ===== How It Works ===== ===== How It Works =====
  
-Commercial revenue from paying customers directly subsidizes free protection for qualifying non-profits, human rights defenders, and independent media. Not a charity model — a cross-subsidy model.+Commercial revenue from paying customers directly subsidizes free protection for qualifying non-profits, human rights defenders, and independent media. Not a charity model: a cross-subsidy model.
  
   * Infrastructure has withstood malicious traffic in excess of **100 Gbps**   * Infrastructure has withstood malicious traffic in excess of **100 Gbps**
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 ===== Why It Matters ===== ===== Why It Matters =====
  
-The alternative — defaulting to [[folkzone:networking:cdn_consolidation|Cloudflare]] — means routing traffic through a platform that has unilaterally decided which civil society organizations deserve protection based on CEO mood and media cycles. Deflect was built specifically because that power should not exist in a single private company's hands.+The alternative (defaulting to [[folkzone:networking:cdn_consolidation|Cloudflare]]) means routing traffic through a platform that has unilaterally decided which civil society organizations deserve protection based on CEO mood and media cycles. Deflect was built specifically because that power should not exist in a single private company's hands.
  
 ===== See Also ===== ===== See Also =====
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   * [[folkzone:networking:cdn_consolidation|CDN Consolidation and Internet Resilience]]   * [[folkzone:networking:cdn_consolidation|CDN Consolidation and Internet Resilience]]
-  * [[folkzone:services:cloudflared|Cloudflare Tunnel (homelab usage)]]+  * [[terminal:tools:ssh_via_cloudflare|Cloudflare Tunnel]] (SSH access)
   * [[indieweb:good_web|The Good Web]]   * [[indieweb:good_web|The Good Web]]
   * [[start|Return to wiki home]]   * [[start|Return to wiki home]]
   * [[folkzone:start|Return to folkzone]]   * [[folkzone:start|Return to folkzone]]
  
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