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Re:Let us serve you, but don't bring us down by coldpie on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:21AM (#36124571)
So the answer is it's just speculation and has never been seen in the wild :)
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Re:Let us serve you, but don't bring us down by otikik on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:19AM (#36136626)
Sure, you can interpret my answer like that, if that makes you happy.
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Re:Let us serve you, but don't bring us down by xenotize on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:46PM (#36142258)
Kind of a snarky response. Obviously this has been seen in the wild. If you created an intrusion detection system to look for suspicious requests, I think one occurring over and over and at a regular interval would clearly be seen as malicious and not a genuine user.
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Re:Let us serve you, but don't bring us down by coldpie on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:23PM (#36142847)
> Obviously this has been seen in the wild.

Can you provide an actual example? I see it come up a lot in these conversations, but I'm really skeptical that anyone actually does this analysis. It seems like rate analysis (either requests or bandwidth) would achieve the same result in a far simpler manner, so I suspect that is what actually happens.

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