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Yes, hosting providers need rate limiting mitigations in place. GitHub's is called gitmon (at least unofficially), and you can learn more at https://m.youtube.

Yes, hosting providers need rate limiting mitigations in place. GitHub's is called gitmon (at least unofficially), and you can learn more at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ecUqHxD7o https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ecUqHxD7o Visual Studio Team Services has a fundamentally different architecture, but we do some similar mechanisms despite that. (I should do some talks about it - but it's always hard to know how much to say about your defenses lest it give attackers clever new ideas!)

corobo 9y ago
> how much to say about your defenses lest it give attackers clever new ideas attackers will try clever new ideas anyway if their less clever old ideas don't work :P
- Sean1708 9y ago
  How does the saying go? Something like "security through obscurity isn't security"?
  - ethomson 9y ago
    It's not security through obscurity. It's defense in depth.