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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by balls187 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:00AM (#37832207)
This is akin to the argument that bike helmets makes people less safe (and invariably has a comment about the Dutch and their safety record)
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by lozenge on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:03AM (#37832241)
It is like saying effective spam filters are bad for email as a distributed system.

It's the spam that killed email, not the filters.

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