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A comment on Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack. Parent comment

Re:Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack by labster on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:21AM (#12772426)
Obscurity is a valid defense layer, so long as it is not the only layer, and so long as the obscurity is not just a way of covering up garbage.
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Re:Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack by dllthomas on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:26AM (#12772439)
But it can also be substantially more costly than its worth, and a lot of the cost isn't super visible (people finding it marginally harder to get their job done, being unable to learn from informed discussion on HN, &c).
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