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In your extreme example of 100k valid stolen credit cards being burned simultaneously in one attack, you've got 1PB which is only $25k/mo online, $7k/mo coldli
by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In your extreme example of 100k valid stolen credit cards being burned simultaneously in one attack, you've got 1PB which is only $25k/mo online, $7k/mo coldline, retail, so even less wholesale or on tape backup. That's hardly noticeable on the bottom line.
- kajecounterhack 8y agoFwiw speaking from experience 100k is a toy problem and the "fake accounts freezing out resources" problem is _very_ noticeable to the bottom line. The scale of attacks they face are orders of magnitude higher. The 10gb figure is also contrived. If you don't freeze the _bandwidth and compute_ resources you're even more fucked, because those have far worse scaling characteristics. So big company X taking immediate action to take down services make a lot of sense in that light. They don't do it in every situation though e.g borderline cases that require human review. Fraud fighting is costly.