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20000 being modest really says a lot about the state of security on the Internet.
by grotorea 3y ago
20000 being modest really says a lot about the state of security on the Internet.
- superhuzza 3y agoOr does it say more about the sheer number of devices connected to the internet?
- tyingq 3y agoWell, 20000 to hit 201 million requests per second and give Cloudflare problems. You wouldn't need that to make problems for many sites.
- londons_explore 3y agoDistribute just one warez game with your malware embedded and you'll have well over 20,000 hosts under your control.
- mattigames 3y agoIs there any major popular account that distributes cracked games that has been found to do such thing? I have seen some popular accounts that create their own installers ("repacks") and the installation takes a suspiciously long time and a huge amount of RAM while is installing.
- paulddraper 3y ago*the size of
- arp242 3y agoThere are 5 billion people on the internet. This is 0.0004%. Even 2 million is only 0.04%. (this assumes that 1 person = 1 device; some people share devices, most people have more than one, e.g. I have a laptop and a router, many people also have a phone, a work laptop, and whatnot – the average is probably >1, maybe even >2)
- masklinn 3y ago> this assumes that 1 person = 1 device; some people share devices, most people have more than one, e.g. I have a laptop and a router, many people also have a phone, a work laptop, and whatnot – the average is probably >1, maybe even >2 And lots of devices are not even that, Internet of Shit garbage is well known for being botnet-central, servers running insecure services are good fodder (it's very common for vulnerabilities to be used not to exploit the machine itself, but to install C&C and leverage the machine into other attacks), ...