Some security firms now offer a "scrubbing" service that allows a site under attack to redirect traffic through the security firm's servers, which remove (scrub) the bad requests and send legitimate ones through.
In the 1990's, they gave birth to food-souvenir-gas travel plazas as big as supermarkets, cookie-cutter motels, casinos, shopping malls, second cities of old cities at exit ramps and immense, 100-acre depots where trucks are sold, scrubbed, serviced and scrapped.
Instead of agreeing to scrub their services of disturbing material, many Web services are trying to sustain a precarious balance: they say they want to avoid becoming a safe haven for hate, yet they do not want to exert too much control over what appears on their Web sites.
China has long had one of the world's most extensive and sophisticated internet censorship systems, scrubbing domestic services of any sensitive content and blocking overseas services including Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as well as websites such as that of the New York Times.
Scrub its web services site and try to find mention of its many porn-y subsidiaries.
The government has ordered Dropbox-like services to scrub indecent images and cracked down on pornographic apps.
The trip included free air fare and hotel, foot scrubs and spa services, a sailing regatta and golf and tennis and sightseeing trips.
A 45-minute hammam service of body scrub, foam massage and shampoo costs 180 lira per person, while Bosphorous Under Your Feet, an hourlong foot massage, goes for 170 lira.
Calling a cleaning service "Wash and Scrub Cleaners" would be descriptive.
But thanks to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the wealthy and powerful are able to cloak their political activities, and there are a variety of services available to scrub private information from the web for a price.
Yesterday, as I was having my first-ever body scrub at a Korean Spa -- a service that is described as "not for any woman who is shy about her body" -- it struck me how having kids has expunged every bit of modesty impressed upon me by my upbringing.
