Cloudflare grew from a free tool answering one nagging question.
The question, back in 2004, was simple. Where does email spam actually come from? The open-source trap Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway built, Project Honey Pot, let any website watch harvesters steal addresses. Thousands of users loved the tracking, but kept writing in with the same plea — don’t just watch the bad guys, stop them.
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