Re:Anti-War Hacktivism Is Leading to Digital Xenophobia and ...
by suifbwish on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:22PM
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If you own popular websites you can embed code that causes the visitors to repeatedly background download large files from some web server you don’t like. If someone is hosting in AWS people can deliberately drive up their bill by scanning their site for the highest file size and just mass downloading that one file around the clock. I dont support this behavior but it happens.
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