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I thought the initial `D` in DDOS sttod for "distributed". The article reports about "DDoS botnets operating on KV's infrastructure". Wouldn't "DDoS botnets ope
by silviot 7y ago
I thought the initial `D` in DDOS sttod for "distributed".
The article reports about "DDoS botnets operating on KV's infrastructure". Wouldn't "DDoS botnets operated from KV's infrastructure" be a better description?
- grepthisab 7y agoI run a distributed system on AWS infrastructure. It's still distributed by all common usage of the word.
- GoblinSlayer 7y agoIf your system goes down together with Amazon, it's not distributed, it just occupies several machines - a farm.
- xboxnolifes 7y agoIf your system goes down together with (the Earth|DNS Routing|ISPs), it's not distributed, it just occupies several machines - a farm.
- callalex 7y agoYes but a Farm Systems Engineer is a very different job than a Distributed Systems Engineer.
- solotronics 7y agolol. I work down at the Cloud Farm.
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThe server that commands the zombies has to run from somewhere. So it's likely the host was used as the Command and Control hub.