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Nothing, to be truthful. Nothing stops you from being mean and using a pre-existing botnet to DDoS the update servers, either. Let's say you manage to pop the
by CiPHPerCoder 10y ago
Nothing, to be truthful.
Nothing stops you from being mean and using a pre-existing botnet to DDoS the update servers, either.
Let's say you manage to pop the WordPress update server and turn every WordPress website on the Internet into a DoS bot. That's 25% of websites, and most likely a large cross-section of all available servers.
There are very few networks that could possibly shoulder that traffic, and I certainly don't have the budget for it right now.
- ryanlol 10y agoThis is relatively easy to account for though, if updates are properly authenticated it shouldn't be much of a problem to host them in multiple locations. DDoSing s3 and competition can be excessively difficult and not every update needs to be served from there.