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Difficulty 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
by lucideer 4y ago
Difficulty 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.