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I don't see how the request size to mastodon is at all relevant to the resulting traffic.
by kevincox 2y ago
I don't see how the request size to mastodon is at all relevant to the resulting traffic.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoIt's the language of "traffic amplification" as a network attack (1) as used in a DDOS. it's perhaps more relevant when comparing the total bytes in a number of IP Packets of various sizes. I'm not saying that this is the optimal framing, but that's what they were going for: talking about this, correctly or not, as a de facto DDOS. 1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/05/23/anatomy-of-ddos-amplification-attacks/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/05/23/ana...