Deflect is a DDoS mitigation and website security service by eQualitie, a Canadian social enterprise developing open and reusable systems with a focus on privacy, resilience and self-determination, to protect and promote human rights and press freedom online. Deflect was founded by digital security expert and trainer Dmitri Vitaliev and Canadian internet entrepreneur David Mason in 2011. The Deflect project predates similar initiatives by Google's Project Shield and Cloudflare's Project Galileo. The initiative was created in response to an influential report by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society which highlighted the prevalence of DDoS as a means of political repression and censorship against independent media and human rights groups around the world, and recommended practical methods to protect websites from future incidents. The company claims to reach approximately 2% of the population connected to the Internet on an annual basis More information...
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