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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s ne... by devindotcom on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:12PM (#8812344)
*terabits

It's a lot, but think about it this way, if the average home connection is say 10 megabits, it only takes a hundred to make a terabit. Some of these botnets command many thousands.

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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s ne... by waitwaitwhay on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:17PM (#8812365)
No, 100 connections 10 Mbps each would make it 1 Gbps not 1 Tbps.
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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s ne... by RadioactiveMan on Monday December 29, 2014 @07:44PM (#8812703)
Amplification attacks can be used to gain huge boosts in bandwidth.[1] For example, in the attack on Spamhaus in 2013[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Refle... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker#Spamhaus

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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s ne... by BorisMelnik on Monday December 29, 2014 @10:09PM (#8813122)
bits, bytes whats the difference.
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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s ne... by merlincorey on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:52PM (#8816007)
8 times currently.
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Re:Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into Sony’s ne... by devindotcom on Monday December 29, 2014 @09:17PM (#8812967)
Oops. Skipped.... several digits there. My basic math skills are in decline. I'd delete this comment if I could. Please downvote.
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