Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by rglullis on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:22AM (#37833233)

The lesson is not to "avoid" the cloud, but to not be "dependent" on it. Doubly so if the service provided is one that keeps you locked in and can not be ported over.

So yes, I feel comfortable with my strategy of having backups on bluray disks + S3. If AWS goes down or decides to jack up their prices to something unacceptable, I will take the physical copies and move then to the dozen others S3-compatible alternatives. I am not dependent on AWS.

But I am not interested in using Google Authenticator or Lastpass because that would mean that I am at their mercy.

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by lazide on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:07PM (#37835405)

LastPass is an issue - but even LastPass would let you export/print the passwords. So no hard dependency there*. Google Authenticator recently did something similar with QR codes.

* though OTP seeds don’t print, and you can’t export/print attachments. I don’t recommend LastPass for these and many other reasons.

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