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This was an extremely interesting article. I hope Google rectifies this type of behavior. This is actually pretty scary.

• typpo 14y ago
  This isn't Google's fault. I could get a couple machines and do the same thing if I had a list of 250 gigs of files. And I wouldn't be limited to once every hour.
  • bri3d 14y ago
    But those machines wouldn't be Google's, and you would probably either be committing a crime (building an exploited botnet) or using someone's money (be it your employer, university, or yourself) to run them. This is pretty clearly a different league of attack: rather than attacking systems or spending money, you'd be exploiting a Google feature to use Google's resource for free to incur a giant amount of data transfer.
    • tantalor 14y ago
      It would almost certainly be criminal regardless of the method (Google, EC2, botnet).