Re:Reddit Is Down
by dinero_rojo on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:33PM
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Is a site the size of Reddit really susceptible to DDoS attacks? And do you really think anti-mask/vaxers would have the technical ability to do that?
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For non-cached content, sure?
All you have to do is exhaust enough database fetching and rendering on the backend for non-cached content and even amazon goes down (ie. black friday downtime).
It would take an impressive amount of resources but who knows what blackhatters are selling these days.
Re:Reddit Is Down
by unityByFreedom on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:44PM
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You'd need to use logged in accounts to get uncached content, so wouldn't you be burning through a lot of accounts to do it? Seems like something you could only do once in awhile. Doesn't seem worth it for a simple quarantining of a sub.