[SkyDancer]

So only your internet provider or browser can deny them? Explorer at one time blocked them and FF called them some sort of virus site and blocked them.

[palmer]

There were attacks years ago which involved planting links to malware and then getting FR blocked. FR is pretty good now about mitigating that. Another attack a few years ago was DDOS. They did succeed in denying service for a little while but John R has proprietary protection, probably based on automatic blocking of addresses and other things. Roll-your-own protection is really the only choice since only big players can provide the non-proprietary protection and we cannot rely on Google or Amazon at all.

That first type of attack is intruder information warfare. There are many people here who can recognize it, report it, and intruders can be dealt with promptly. Browers blocking the site based on faulty accusations of disseminating viruses can be bypassed by using a different browser. Have to be somewhat wary of consortiums of "computer security" people colluding to block us, especially if the government sanctions their actions. But I don't see it as a big threat.

The second type of attack is external. The major risk is not that we can't blunt the attack and stay up, but that our internet provider may not want their other customers to suffer from the fallout. We always have to be aware of that possibility.

There are probably other threats as well that I haven't heard of or thought about.