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Re:Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network by raesene9 on Friday October 09, 2020 @08:53AM (#24729388)
Whilst I have no inside information on Apple, I'm pretty sure that'd be a tiny portion of the traffic they see daily. They may blackhole you just to cut down the noise, but frankly given the level of DDoS they'll get regularly, I doubt they'd bother.

For one very quick stat "The average size of DDoS attacks was at the mindblowing 26.37 GBps in Q2 2018"

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Re:Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network by user5994461 on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:14AM (#24729559)
You got your units wrong. 26 GBps (208 Gbps) would be among the largest attacks recorded in history. Maybe you meant to say 26 Gbps which is 8 times less, but even that is a very large and notable attack, hardly any company could withstand it outside of CDN and big tech.
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Re:Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network by raesene9 on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:39AM (#24730319)
that's a direct copy/paste from the first article on DDoS size I saw https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/ddos-statistics/ , I wasn't going for deep research, just making a point about massscan from one host not really representing a serious concern for someone like Apple.
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