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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by jiggy2011 on Friday January 20, 2012 @07:20AM (#3489230)
That's pretty nasty. Surely defense against this kind of thing should be built into browsers although you would need to detect an unending loop causing HTTP requests so run into the halting problem I guess.

If they are tricking people into performing what is potentially a criminal act then they lose the limited amount of respect I did have for them.

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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by maxerickson on Friday January 20, 2012 @09:47AM (#3489597)
My recent version of Firefox defaults to a limit of 15 connections per server. So there is some defense built in.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by jiggy2011 on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:19AM (#3489712)
Yea but as soon as one connection is finished it can just spawn another one so 15 concurrent connections is more than enough to do damage.

Once you start doing thousands of concurrent connections you more likely to kill your router anyway.

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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by mike-cardwell on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:43AM (#3489808)
The Firefox addon RequestPolicy will protect you from this.
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Re:Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal ... by jiggy2011 on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:05PM (#3490148)
This should be something that is default in the browser, the issue is to stop the less tech savvy user unwittingly perpetrate a DDOS.
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