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The traffic burst would be huge for the Tesla tweet. That type of scam introduces more complexity, such as requiring hosting for millions of visitors in an hou
by three_seagrass 6y ago
The traffic burst would be huge for the Tesla tweet. That type of scam introduces more complexity, such as requiring hosting for millions of visitors in an hour, which can leave a traceable trail.
- iMerNibor 6y agoCompromised aws or similar accounts shouldn't be that hard for someone to get hold of at that point though? You could probably make the whole site fairly convincing with just static files & some js which would be super easy to scale up with just a free cloudflare account or something along those lines
- Nextgrid 6y agoHosting for millions of visitors/hour isn't that hard. Maybe the cloud companies want to make you think otherwise, but a handful of bare metal servers around the world should be enough to handle that kind of load unless you're streaming video or running a really heavy web framework. Those can easily be obtained for free if you're already a criminal and have access to compromised servers or stolen credit cards to buy them with.
- three_seagrass 6y agoThe point isn't tech scalability - the point is that scaling to that many visitors requires payment, and many cloud providers have anti-fraud mechanisms in place to prevent scammers from doing this quickly and easily without being traceable.
- mgraczyk 6y agoThey wouldn't have needed a site. The tweet could have included the address and mentioned "first 10000 people to send X Bitcoin get the new Tesla Y"