Comment on GitHub hit by DDoS attack second day in a rowparentComments−maratd13ySomeone who wants to test the limits of their botnet and technique. Can you think of a more tech savvy target?−SethMurphy13yAttacking a rails application, you would be proud of that? Rails sites are not exactly known for their performance.−donavanm13yDDOSs are typically defeated through buying lots and lots of transit. That's an exercise in outspending your adversary.A small entity like github should be trivial to saturate.−lucisferre13yAmazon.−bkanber13yAmazon has a service outage every time you look at it funny, much less a DDoS...hyuk, hyuk−adgar213yGoogle. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.−tensor13yMost startups? Name even one startup in the same league as the others you've named.
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Someone who wants to test the limits of their botnet and technique. Can you think of a more tech savvy target?
Attacking a rails application, you would be proud of that? Rails sites are not exactly known for their performance.
DDOSs are typically defeated through buying lots and lots of transit. That's an exercise in outspending your adversary.
A small entity like github should be trivial to saturate.
Amazon.
Amazon has a service outage every time you look at it funny, much less a DDoS...
hyuk, hyuk
Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.
Most startups? Name even one startup in the same league as the others you've named.