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Such as?

• gjsman-1000 3y ago
  1. DDoS Attacks 2. Port scanning attacks 3. Geolocation attacks (you shouldn't run a server from your home, when your IP Address could be used to find you; be it from a hack or an abuse of the legal process) 4. The US internet relying on a backbone mostly operated by 4 companies (meaning a direct connection is a massive perk) For as much as we moan about Amazon and Cloudflare centralizing things; believe me, just taking out Level 3 / Lumen would be almost an act of war and would affect every ISP and cloud provider. If you took out Lumen, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, and AT&T, just those 3 companies; that's 2.35 million kilometers of fiber going dark. For reference, Comcast has "only" 150,000 km.
  • djbusby 3y ago
    Those are problem and symptoms - not design flaws. How could one design a system that doesn't let DDoS exist on the network?
  • silisili 3y ago
    I actually have a lot of respect for the big backbones. If Goog/MS/Amz owned them all, they'd find some way to wall it off from everyone else. If Comcast or Charter owned them all, our internet would cost about $1000 a month by now. All things considered, IMO they've been fairly good and fair stewards.