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kleinbl00 · 2774 days ago · link · · parent · post: Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
yeah... you can do dumb haranguing shit to a surprising number of sites - often there will be a slowdown between Google and Amazon which is somebody DDOSing the CDNs, for example - but "killing the internet" is, at this point, a matter of protracted physical violence. not that it couldn't be done. But from my understanding of network security (which is as a layman's, but as a layman's educated by one of the guys that keeps the DOE up) is that quality of service attacks are easier and likelier than denial of service attacks.