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You hack into a bunch of servers, PCs and smartphones. You don't even need that many with modern connections.
by imaginenore 10y ago
You hack into a bunch of servers, PCs and smartphones. You don't even need that many with modern connections.
- lightedman 10y agoYup. Cable subscribers in the USA alone have enough aggregate bandwidth to knock Akamai totally offline if 620 G-bit is something they can't handle. My own uplink is 10 M-bit. 100,000 compromised connections that speed is enough for T-bit scale attacks, and compromising 100,000 machines in the new world of "Idiots of Things" is a no-brainer given almost nobody working in the IoT space even gives a nod towards security.