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What do you do if the attacker spoofs the IP address of an innocent third party? Now you send them 100 Mbps, and they retaliate by sending you 10 GB? All this
by landryraccoon 9y ago
What do you do if the attacker spoofs the IP address of an innocent third party? Now you send them 100 Mbps, and they retaliate by sending you 10 GB?
All this does is amplify the DDOS attack. You're making it easier to DDOS yourself, not harder.
- lima 9y agoThird party isn't innocent in this case. Not that I'd condone any sort of vigilante justice, but leaving memcached servers open and ignore abuse messages is reckless.