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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by ma2rten on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:48PM (#28578731)
It's not that easy to get 50 million people to download your app and if you pulled that off there are more profitable things you could do.
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by leroman on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:09PM (#28578890)
Toolbars did just that and been used for many "evil" things..
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by Arnt on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:28PM (#28579028)
My point exactly.

These things are easy to do in principle (most readers here can write that evil payload, or learn how to do it quickly) but there are real practical challenges to getting the code to run on millions of strangers' computers/phones/dsl routers, so most of the code that's actually deployed that widely is beneficial. Happily.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by nine_k on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:06PM (#28578861)
Why limit it to DDoSing? It could be just one feature, but an important one.
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