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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by fnordpiglet on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:56AM (#37833811)
Surely bringing down Google is a bigger technical achievement than some random government website maintained by someone who stumbled into their job after 20 years doing mid level government organizational work.
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by ortusdux on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:04PM (#37833925)
Heck, I'd imagine that making headlines and having Google benchmark your attack would bring some amazing street cred.
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by antonjs on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:43PM (#37835835)
Darknet guerilla marketing. Definitely seems to have worked.

Now we need the SEO content side: "How we hit Google with 398M RPS".

"... you can do this manually, but our product makes it as easy as a sign up and API call. Talk to us about pricing. [Python API example].

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by whimsicalism on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:19PM (#37834125)
Yes, but they are clearly going to fail to bring down Google.
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by jedberg on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:25PM (#37834213)
It doesn't matter if you fail. The cred comes from how much bandwidth and resources you can soak up.
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by usefulcat on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:25PM (#37834207)
Right, so clearly the ability to bring down Google is not the point.
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by fnordpiglet on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:58PM (#37834596)
Well - they clearly were successful enough to get a thread on hacker news……
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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by rvba on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:06PM (#37835391)
Aim high and go out with a bang choom
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