Cloudflare CEO: “Our Marketing Strategy Is Sign Up All Of The World’s International Criminals” [TCTV]

Disrupt runners-up, Cloudflare have been getting a lot of attention recently, thanks to the company's role in helping LulzSec's website stay online. In fact the hackers even gave Cloudflare a shoutout on their Twitter feed -- offering to trade rum for a premium account -- leading to a surge in customer sign-ups.Of course, co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince is quick to point out that the company takes -- at best -- a neutral approach to hosting LulzSec, and that protecting the hackers has only served to make Cloudflare's systems more resilient for all of its other customers. Still, it's a pretty ironic twist for a company which promises to protect websites against DDOS attacks and other nefarious activity.Keen to understand the company's position on helping hackers and on sharing user data with the authorities, I invited Prince into the TCTV studio for a quick interview.]]>