I used to run a web service, an API, that created 3D models of people from photographs. It was a character creation service that made likeness models of real pe

I used to run a web service, an API, that created 3D models of people from photographs. It was a character creation service that made likeness models of real people from a photo. I knew we'd get a lot of hack attempts, and a consultant recommended we get a high end Sonic Wall appliance, a $20K piece of hardware that cleanses all network traffic to and from my data center. Best decision EVER! We'd get hack attempts, we'd get DoS attacks to the tune of 130K hits per hour, and that Sonic Wall shrugged it all oof like nothing. For a while, it looked like every script kiddie was trying to hack into our servers. No one got through, and we could care less how or what they were doing in their attempts. We had real work to do, that did not include fucking around with those idiots. We also had a block list for customers from China. Not a single transaction from China was legitimate, all forged credit card data, so we just blocked their billions of potential customers because not a single purchase from China was real.