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Surely bringing down Google is a bigger technical achievement than some random government website maintained by someone who stumbled into their job after 20 yea
by fnordpiglet 3y ago
Surely bringing down Google is a bigger technical achievement than some random government website maintained by someone who stumbled into their job after 20 years doing mid level government organizational work.
- whimsicalism 3y agoYes, but they are clearly going to fail to bring down Google.
- usefulcat 3y agoRight, so clearly the ability to bring down Google is not the point.
- jedberg 3y agoIt doesn't matter if you fail. The cred comes from how much bandwidth and resources you can soak up.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoWell - they clearly were successful enough to get a thread on hacker news……
- rvba 3y agoAim high and go out with a bang choom
- ortusdux 3y agoHeck, I'd imagine that making headlines and having Google benchmark your attack would bring some amazing street cred.
- antonjs 3y agoDarknet guerilla marketing. Definitely seems to have worked. Now we need the SEO content side: "How we hit Google with 398M RPS". "... you can do this manually, but our product makes it as easy as a sign up and API call. Talk to us about pricing. [Python API example].