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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by mysteriousllama on Monday March 17, 2014 @08:17PM (#7419075)
Has anyone else pondered what would happen if knowledgeable people were to help Australians perform a civil protest in the form of a resource consumption attack?

Even with data caps in place I'm sure one could perform quite a few requests/second continuously for an entire month.

Multiply that by (hundreds of?) thousands of protesters and the logging system could be overwhelmed. Especially considering such a system would likely be badly implemented by the lowest bidder.

Even if it were not overwhelmed, the requests could be tailored to trigger as many false-positives as possible.

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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by computer on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:07AM (#7420081)
Are you suggesting to commit computer fraud in an attempt to break government security systems, thereby giving terrorists and pedophiles free roam?
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Re:Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by victorhooi on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:57AM (#7420272)
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not? Lol.
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