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Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by twojacobtwo on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:05PM (#21900936)
Would it note be relatively trivial for the manufacturer to just filter incoming requests by whitelist of registered ids of their appliances?
Re:Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content ... by larkeith on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:39PM (#21902308)
Not really - either you send the ids unencrypted and they're trivial to falsify, or you send them securely, in which case it takes a lot more power to decrypt each request for filtering than it does for the attacker to send each new request.

DDoS protection is surprisingly challenging - usually it's relegated to a CDN provider, but that would be more difficult when the actual consumers are the same people most likely to be hosting botnets.