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If a group of people did this and rented every car, would this not be a Denial Of Service attack since no one else could rent a car?
by coldcode 11y ago
If a group of people did this and rented every car, would this not be a Denial Of Service attack since no one else could rent a car?
- deskamess 11y agoThat's why the Avis employees assigned him 1 car at each site. He re-rented that same car all the time. The employees mitigated the expected DOS with a cached response. Both DOS'er and DOS'ee are happy. Edit: Poor reading skills on my part... I just noticed you said 'group'.
- jameshart 11y agoBig promotions are often an opportunity to DOS yourself. Sometimes, the fact that a system is likely to be overloaded and sell out is part of the appeal - think about hitting refresh to get tickets as soon as they go on sale, or waiting in line from 6am to get into a midnight doorbuster sale. Self-limiting how many people can exploit the deal through capacity is also a way of preventing unlimited downside losses on the part of the promoter. That's why most special offers say "subject to availability".
- mseebach 11y agoFor sufficiently broad (and meaningless) definitions of DoS.. sure, why not? In general, however, in commerce, the term used is "sold out".
- Dylan16807 11y agoThat would be an enormous profit for the car rental places, especially if they get little traffic most of the time. I don't think buying huge amounts of something at max price counts as an attack.