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German software company SAP SE has done a deal with the USA's OFAC to avoid court proceedings relating to transactions with Iran. But that's not the important part of this story: what matters is that services were provided "in the cloud" and OFAC claims jurisdiction over it.

Publication: 

When we found an advertisement for illegal downloads of Sun Tzu and the Art of Litigation, we wrote to everyone that public records showed as connected to the issue or hosting of the domain. We found, again, that Cloudflare was at the heart of the illegal operation and therefore being paid to provide services to criminals who may be generating profits for organised crime or for material support for terrorists. FCROs must consider the business practices and risk management models of their customers because, by definition, banks are receiving, harbouring and distributing the proceeds of criminal conduct received via those companies.

FCRO Subsection: 

OVH is a cloud services provider. They ask that we write to them, via a form on their website, to report abuse. We did. Their system didn't work.

So here we are.

Dear OVH: You read it here first. Because your reporting system is broken and people are using your IP addresses to hammer our servers. Stop it.

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