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0 pointsdelroth9y ago0 comments

> They can't really be blamed for a DOS attack.

That doesn't really hold when their competitors have teams of engineers working on DDoS mitigations and successfully handle most of these attacks. Falling to a DoS is a technical failure just like other causes of outages.

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corford9y ago· 3 in thread

A ~1 hour response time from identifying to mitigating the DDoS isn't exactly bad. I'd say their engineers did a pretty good job.

leblancfg9y ago

Security really isn't my strong suit, but isn't it standard practice to automate DDoS mitigation strategies?

corford9y ago

Depends on the type and size of the DDoS and where on the network path it's hitting.

abpavel9y ago

DoS is a threat from identifiable source, like Russia. DDoS looks just like normal users, like terrorist sleeping cells.

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