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doesn't this incur large bandwidth data charges for the defender?

• zspitzer 9y ago
  no, it's just sending a tiny zip file, decompression occurs at the other end
  • chamakits 9y ago
    10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints.
    • toomuchtodo 9y ago
      Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer.
    • DamnInteresting 9y ago
      The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article: > As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.