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The Cloudflare Blog·Apr 12, 2018·15 min read62

Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum

Introducing Spectrum: a new Cloudflare feature that brings DDoS protection, load balancing, and content acceleration to any TCP-based protocol.Today we are releasing Spectrum.

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