Re:Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
by dax1928 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:29AM
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Is there a way to determine electricity used during all of this? Certainly each IoT device has low bandwidth and load draw, but each of their service requests is honored the same as any normal human request. A small signal from a device prompts more electricity in potentially multiple servers upstream until the host can satisfy the request. So are there potentially thousands of kWh being wasted even with mitigation? Or can requests from certain IP's be denied and thus electricity saved?
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Re:Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
by astrodust on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:39AM
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I don't think electricity here is the problem. In fact, measuring the impact is probably pointless, a lot of servers are always-on regardless of traffic.
Re:Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
by speedplane on Saturday October 22, 2016 @04:18AM
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Yes, but of course the lost productivity of the eastern continental U.S. for just a few minutes likely dwarfs the wasted electricity by many orders of magnitude.
Re:Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks
by dax1928 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @08:44AM
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Sure, the current draw per byte of information exchanged is negligible. But I'm curious as to how these millions of cheap, low-power IoT devices can essentially act as transistors in the sense that their requests can prompt more relatively higher current draw elsewhere. Once again, this draw is likely miniscule.
In theory, if every internet connected device in the world could be a part of Mirai, not only would we not be able to use the internet, but wouldn't the majority of datacenters be running at full capacity?