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Re:A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not? by mickle00 on Monday March 10, 2014 @12:29AM (#7371293)
Doesn't Facebook do something similar for preview links in chat and/or wall posts? You're probably limited by the number of messages/posts, but I wonder if that could be exploited with n number of fb accounts.
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Re:A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not? by karmiphuc on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @12:39AM (#7377459)
Yes, the same to Twitter. When you paste any links into your tweets, a Tweet Bot will crawl the link to show preview information.
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Re:A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not? by Houshalter on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:48AM (#7371467)
There are reports skype does it to.
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Re:A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not? by chr13 on Monday March 10, 2014 @01:32PM (#7374354)
Don't want to disclose anything at this point but at least one other huge bandwidth owner suffers from this type of attack. Combined, it is clearly a disaster for any small-medium business.
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