The company's critiques notwithstanding, the scope of attacks are so slim that they're almost negligible — but everyone's risk factors are different.
One of its main advantages is the use of isolation to limit the scope of attacks – that is, avoiding traffic from one virtual network to interfere with the others.
Ever since Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr., penned "The Black Church is Dead" for the Huffington Post back in February, my e-mail inbox has been barraged by responses mostly ranging in the limited and pedantic scope of attacking Glaude personally or suggesting that one not air dirty laundry publicly.
"We're under renewed attack again, given the scope of the attack, proper protection can't be put in overnight so even though we have already started the process, it could take a few days to finish implementation.
As for the scope of the attack, Prince says that CloudFlare saw attacks on virtually every WordPress site on its network.
Mandia, whose forensics firm has probed some of the biggest and most sophisticated cyber attacks known to date, told Lynton in his email that "The scope of this attack differs from any we have responded to in the past, as its purpose was to both destroy property and release confidential information to the public".
Should they be kept indoors when no one knew the full scope of the attack or when it would end?
In its most recent statement, the company said: "We immediately launched a full investigation utilising independent forensic experts and other security professionals to assist with determining the origin, nature, and scope of this attack.
Maybe one of those bombs was meant to hit Qaddafi; given the scope of the attack, though, with more than a dozen explosions, the raid seems to have been meant to persuade those around him to do private reckonings, and make a move themselves.
A spokesman for eBay played down the scope of the attack.
