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If I wanted to launch an attack on something like Instagram all I would need to do is put a bunch of images (hosted on instagram) into a Google Spreadsheet? The
by RandallBrown 15y ago
If I wanted to launch an attack on something like Instagram all I would need to do is put a bunch of images (hosted on instagram) into a Google Spreadsheet? Then the google crawler will come through and download them all once an hour?
- BryanB55 15y agoThat's what I'm wondering too, I don't see how this would work on a normal website since a normal website probably wouldn't be whitelisted by Google like AWS is... What am I missing here?
- RandallBrown 15y agoI don't think you'd be able to take down a website with this strategy. The OPs site never went down, it just cost him a lot of money. Even pretty small webservers should be able to serve up static image files pretty easily. But you could do a denial of service by making the service too expensive and all of your work would be hidden behind the anonymity of the google bot.