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$ ab -c 500 -n 1000000 http://example.com/some/resource/intensive/url Amazing how many sites this kind of "attack" would take down. Most sites don't have any t
by staunch 15y ago
$ ab -c 500 -n 1000000 http://example.com/some/resource/intensive/url
Amazing how many sites this kind of "attack" would take down. Most sites don't have any throttling in place to stop it.
- phpnode 15y agoAlthough there was obviously malicious intent here I think it's amazing that typing one line into a terminal can result in (potentially) 5 years in prison.
- epochwolf 15y agoJust because something is simple or easy doesn't make it any more or less ethical to do.
- GigabyteCoin 15y agoPulling a trigger is pretty easy too.
- kristofferR 15y agoYeah, but the difference between killing someone and making a website go down is pretty huge. 5 years for a DOS is insane
- OstiaAntica 15y agoI don't know, it is a pretty vicious act to knock someone's business offline. Worse than car theft. DOS could be disrupting thousands of lives and commerce or research, depending on the site. Five years seems about right if the intent is malicious.
- duck 15y agoYou could also say not setting up the right infrastructure to stop such an attack is malicious of the owners of the site.
- Aetius 15y agoHow many queries per second could you do that with just a personal machine (i.e. not a cloud machine with huge bandwidth limits), before your ISP shut you off?