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Re:Mobile Ad Brokers as DDoS Distribution Vectors: A Case Study by notfoss on Saturday September 26, 2015 @06:51AM (#10282735)
Anyone else read it as "Mobile Ad Blockers"? I came here curious to see how ad blockers could be used as DDOS vectors. Well, I guess theoretically, it might be possible to overwhelm a device with a page which has too many elements to block, causing the ad blocker to consume a lot of resources.
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Re:Mobile Ad Brokers as DDoS Distribution Vectors: A Case Study by maskofsanity on Sunday September 27, 2015 @08:03AM (#10286240)
I did :)
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