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Whether the solution is working well isn't about whether you have caused work for fraudsters (though I'm all for that) but about whether you are actually preven
by jefftk 4y ago
Whether the solution is working well isn't about whether you have caused work for fraudsters (though I'm all for that) but about whether you are actually preventing fake traffic.
- lucideer 4y agoDifficulty will always have a direct impact on scale: if you've significantly increased the difficulty for fraudsters that's going to have a knock-on effect on the amount of fraudulent traffic you receive. There's no such thing as zero; a successful measure is one that achieves significant reduction.
- jefftk 4y agoDefinitely! I was taking issue with your counting "forced to use botnets" as a success, but it sounds like you're actually saying it's just a decent proxy for success, because it is hard enough that you expect this to massively cut down on fraud? (I think of botnets as not actually that hard a step for fraudsters, and fraudsters as being very determined, but it depends a lot on how much money people can make with fraud against your particular situation)
- bombcar 4y agoOne AWS device grinding ads is cheap, if you have a full-fledged widespread bot net you may very well make more money selling it as DDOS service.